On 2 Mar 2005, at 22:15, John Delacour wrote: > At 9:45 pm +0000 2/3/05, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> I'm thinking that if he's not comfortable with pico maybe emacs is >> not the best idea... > > I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone > would use such tools in preference to TextWrangler, BBEdit or Affrus. > I can imagine they'd make it a chore to write code in us-ascii and > either a nightmare or an impossibility to deal with non-ascii, but > maybe that's because I'm just an unreformed Mac user :-) > Personally, because I learned Emacs in 1986, so the control keys are hard-coded in my brain :-)Thread Previous | Thread Next