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I'm old enough to have worked on SPARCstations too. I have fond memories of them, actually. It was at the time when the big debate was whether to use GNU Emacs
by kleiba 5y ago
I'm old enough to have worked on SPARCstations too. I have fond memories of them, actually.
It was at the time when the big debate was whether to use GNU Emacs or XEmacs. If you weren't in team vi, that is.
I remember sharing Emacs frames between machines (using `xhost +`) to do "pair programming"... or rather, have your more experienced co-worker debug your awful code for you ;-)
Anyway, thanks for the interesting write-up. I myself never got into vi, although I don't subscribe to the flamewar mentality of old. I wish I were proficient in both.
Emacs, by the way, always had multiple "tabs" that you could switch between. Just sayin' ;-)
- smackeyacky 5y agoThe Sun gear was really cool to work on. I think occasionally I would like to buy an old one just to have around. My mentor at the time hated emacs. She said everybody had to learn vi because on a new machine it might be the only thing installed. The flamewars over it seem quaint now.
- kleiba 5y agoI learned enough vi to get by the few times I actually had to use it for that reason (nothing else installed). Which comes down to cursor movement, changing the mode, deleting lines and chars, and :wq! But in all these years I hardly ever encountered a situation where I had to edit some files on a machine that only had vi installed. Perhaps I would have learned it by now if that had been the case more often.