Re:Ask HN: How to force myself to learn emacs?
by bayareaguy on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @03:06AM
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alias vi emacs
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Re:Ask HN: How to force myself to learn emacs?
by thelastnode on Wednesday December 15, 2010 @03:49AM
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I actually did this recently! I kept vim as vim though, so if I REALLY needed to edit something quickly, I still could.
It's very natural to type "vi <filename>", so it certainly helped.
Re:Ask HN: How to force myself to learn emacs?
by bayareaguy on Thursday December 16, 2010 @02:29AM
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it certainly helped
That was my experience as well, having learned vi before emacs. Unfortunately back then computers were scarce and I frequently shared my account with friends less pleased with this strategy. One even thought it was a joke On him and after he eventually got his own account he got "even" with me by putting 'nice 5' in my .login, which I didn't find for weeks...