kevin lyda said, in a piece of blatant flame-bait which I can't ignore
> vim-enhanced rpm. add this line:
>> syntax on
>> you should be a trained and experienced vi user to do this since vi is a
> difficult and hard to use editor. obviously elisp is much more
> simplistic to learn for the new user.
[X]Emacs as shipped with RedHat, and indeed probably any current Emacs built
with defaults, supports syntax highlighting of Perl, among many others, right
out of the box. And if I decide that I don't like how vim handles Perl, can I
fix it other than by recompiling the editor ? Does it have a reasonable
extension language ? (Lisp's reasonableness (is not (up for (discussion))))
OK, maybe the average person finds fixing his Emacs' behaviour by writing elisp
a little difficult. The average person doesn't re-write his kernel every day, but
he can if he wants - isn't that the whole point ?
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