Unix Programming - Re: Best unix programming language or tool for dealing with plaintext

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Re: Best unix programming language or tool for dealing with plaintext

Russell Shaw

2005-11-08, 6:29 pm

toby wrote:
> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
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> So was your bogus PERL cliché - sorry.

After using vim for a long time, i tried (x)emacs and learnt lisp a
bit. I totally dislike waiting for an editor to start. It should be
there in an instant as soon as <CR> is hit. Also hate relying on an
editor that brings in 50MB to the system (debian).
Vim configuration and script syntax is also ugly as hell and i hate
it too, but i'm only using it because i've got a half useable .vimrc
file worked out, and it's fast and does regexps easily. I'll get a
multi-windowing vi working one day that is far better;)