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At 12:21 PM 3/22/99 +0000, you wrote:
>Please don't start another holly war.
>Is obvious that different people likes different editors and that's why
there 
>are tons of editors.
>
>SET

SET:

There is no "war" and no "like" or "dislike" involved here.
I like your fine editor because I tried it out.
I like EMACS because I tried it out.

What is going on is some programmers say they "dislike" EMACS not having
really tried it out. That's all.

If I with my minimal expertise can get good use out of EMACS then anybody
can. I am proving it.

If one really gives EMACS a good workout (no skipping) and then does not
like or does not need it then-- very well. We all do that kind of thing all
the time. I suspect that for the most part complaints about EMACS are not
from people who have worked with it far enough to be able to say "I like
it" or "I don't like it"

However, I want to go even further: A programmer (or even a heavy text
worker for that matter) should get to know EMACS to see what ELISP
extensibility can do for him if he wants some day to do some things "his
way". Then he can put EMACS aside for the time being knowing he can come
back to it later if it can serve him. It's a good education. Not getting
this education into this marvelous gift from Richard Stallman and the GNU
project is a deficiency. That's all. Then everybody can do as he pleases.

No war. Just looking at GNU honestly. After all, what is GNU for if not to
enable us do do things the way
  we want to do them---but how can we do that if we're ignorant?

Peace,

Ralph