[ILUG] Emacs vs. Vi

[Raymond Kelly]

On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, John P. Looney wrote:

>  Visual Slickedit does kick arse. I now have it working just like Vim, only
> I can't get the fucker to let me "select text, then delete the selection
> with x". I have to use "shift-del" instead.
> 
>  BTW, anyone know how to change colours in recent versions of gvim ? It
> doesn't listen to the vim*foreground type things in .Xdefaults...

That just reminded me of something
A while back (slackware 2.x - 3.(small number)) I used to use jed as an
editor of choice, smaller/faster than emacs with roughly the same
keybindings, and FAR less cryptic than vi. it's major advantage for me
was that it had nifty syntax highlighting setup by default. Once I moved
to red hat as my dist of choice this option was gone & I couldn't find any
fm to r that would let me in on how to set this up (I didn't have net
access from home to search more thouroughly). Would anyone have come
across this before & figured out a solution so I can get my nice colours
back.  Someday I'd like to revisit the jed that I rememberd & loved, time
permitting of course :) 

	Ray ...