> have fun showing most art students how to use vim or emacs :p just typing a few commands in a console to build a project is already a galore from past teachin

> have fun showing most art students how to use vim or emacs :p just typing a few commands in a console to build a project is already a galore from past teaching experience. Back in the 80s, I used to teach LaTeX workshops, primarily to math department secretaries. These were usually given in a university's computer lab. At one such lab, the staff had decided that the students should use vi. The problem was that the terminals were such that hitting any of the arrow keys would be interpreted by vi as delete the current paragraph irrevocably. After one morning of frustrated students, I switched everyone to emacs. We didn't use a fraction of emacs's power, but at least the arrow keys worked.