On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Erik Mitchell wrote: > Gnome vs. KDE... what about the lighter window managers? I'm a big fan > of Awesome. I use ICE in VNC. > And what about text editors? I use VIM, because it's so much better than > Emacs. Flamewar #3, commence. Emacs is better. Actually, and this is true, emacs was written at MIT where they had more computing power and better networking. vi was written for slow networks and that was the reason for the awkward way that it works. I read that in an article by Bill Joy, author of vi. Mike