On Sat, Jan 31, 2026 at 10:46:06PM +1000, onefang wrote:
> On 2026-01-31 13:16:42, Harald Arnesen via Dng wrote:
> > onefang [2026-01-31 12:55:53]:
> >
> > > I wonder what will happen first, the emacs operating system gets a decent
> > > text editor, or the systemd operating system gets a decent init system?
> >
> > Ah, another editor war!
> >
> > $ sudo apt install vile
> >
> > (I personally much prefer emacs, although I can manage vi as well.)
>
> I treat both emacs and vi the same, if I accidently end up in one, I know
> the quit commands -
>
> killall -KILL emacs
> killall -KILL vi

Easy nowadays, when X11 will give you a many xters as you want
to enter these commands.

Much harder to do in the old days when you had only one stream
of keyboard actions and that going directly to the editor you
were stuck in.

Who says there has been no progress?

-- hendrik