On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 07:36:56AM -0700, sinck@ugive.com wrote:
> <SPARK TYPE=HOLYWAR>
> Ah, the cry of someone who has never used emacs to code a hook into
> emacs' version control suite, auto submitted that change to a daily
> log, and auto email the result to a administrator.
> 
> Do that in Mutt, if you can.  :-)
> 
> I've done it in emacs.
> </SPARK>

Yeah, that was one hell of a spark. ;-)

I couldn't use Emacs for mail, because then I'd have to use Emacs as my text
editor.  And that would be unacceptable.

> You'll never ever convince me that Mutt is *more* powerful than emacs
> without a long pitched battle first, and perhaps not even then.  You
> might convince me Mutt *approaches* emacs in vanilla configuration
> without much of an argument tho.

I concede that Emacs is damn powerful.  I used it as my text editor (and
even my mail client) for a little while.  But, for me, Emacs's power is 
outweighed by vi's simplicity and ease-of-use.

> Not to start more holywars than necessary, I'll admit to actually
> having used :map in vi on purpose and had it do what I wanted it to. 

Yeah, :map works pretty well for most purposes.
 
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