On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
I'm an emacs user who's nearly completely useless in vi. But, really...
it just doesn't matter if emacs isn't installed by default. If you want
it, you know how to get it. And let's be frank: emacs is not something
that a user who is unaware of it might stumble into and suddenly find
himself blindingly productive. (Nor, for that matter, is vi.)
I agree. My problem is not that emacs is missing in development stack.
My problem is when there is something wrong with the computer and I
have to boot in the rescue mode, I can't rescue anything because emacs
is not there. I wrote on a piece of paper how I would save and exit in
vi, or exit without saving in vi, but that paper is gone now. I wish
vi had some tutorial the way emacs does, so one don't get lost in it.
The other day at work, I had to tweak some stuff in one of our
servers, but I found that another person at work removed emacs from
the machine because "it takes too much space". There I realized that
Emacs has always been the scapegoat.
When did Fedora stop installing emacs by default? Fedora Core 3?
Orcan