RMF: Emacs and Vim Are Not Line Editors

Ed is a line editor. QED is a line editor. Even Edlin is a line editor. Vim and Emacs are not: they’re visual or full-screen editors.

This Red Meat Friday offering may not exercise most of you but I find it annoying that people offering advice on technical job hunting can’t get a fundamental distinction like this correct.

This entry was posted in General and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.