mintCast 171 – Emacs vs Vi
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The Main Topic: Emacs vs VI
Website (3 for 1 bonus):
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Avdi Grimm’s blog – Avdi Grimm, a Ruby programmer, has written a series of blog posts about emacs.
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The True programmers editor – Why vi: The programmers’ true editor “… you have to be completely insane and out of your senses should you ever use any editor on Unix systems other than vi and emacs.” from “Ramblings of an unfettered mind”
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xkcd – The final word on “real programmers”
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