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And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both. (FWIW I use nano.)

• zeveb 6y ago
  > And that was one of the sillier holy wars, since text editors have near-zero network effects and it's trivial for distros to ship both. Text editors like vi may have near-zero network effects, but operating systems like emacs and vim have plenty of network effects. If I spend months building an amazing interface to git in Emacs but my colleague uses vim, our organisation is hurt. That's (I think) why people care: they want to collaborate. > (FWIW I use nano.) boggle
  • sjwright 6y ago
    I’m mostly kidding about nano, I only use that when I have to. My main editor is HomeSite+ 5.5 running on Windows XP in a virtual machine on my Mac. And I’m not kidding.
    • sjwright 6y ago
      Oh and by the way it starts faster and uses less RAM than Eclipse. That's fucked up.