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Originally Posted by
jhtrice
I use emacs for any complicated scripting. I used to put it in edt emulation mode but I've gotten out of that habit. I learned edt editor on a pdp-11/23.
I use vi/vim for editing system files and minor edits.
Funny you say that. In 1982, I got my first exposure to Emacs on a MULTICS system but never really learned or mastered it. In 1985 I got another chance with Emacs. On one platform, it was too big and slow in those days, but a few years later I got a chance to really start working with it, and it was then that I fell in love with it. I had used Vi going back to 1982, and ed at that same time. Vi won over ed, but I do use both ed and sed for certain special tasks.
It was edt emulation that helped me get over the hump to learn Emacs at my own pace and use edt emulation in the meantime. I ended up writing and modifying a WPS keypad emulator to learn Emacs Lisp, and also because I happened to have a keyboard with WPS etchings instead of EDT etchings or just numbers.
These days I have a few function keys that I set up for Emacs functions I use often, but for the most part, I either know the commands I want to run or at the very least I know where to find them.
Emacs definitely gets the job done, especially for tasks where you have to repeat the same thing over and over. A quick macro saves the day, then repeat the macro 20,000 times and the work is done in seconds!