On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:05:19PM +0900, Jeremy Henty wrote: > On 2006-08-27, David Vallner <david / vallner.net> wrote: > > Charles O Nutter wrote: > >> I'm glad I'm not the only one tired of hearing Emacs users belittle > >> IDE users, as though they're running any closer to bare metal. > > > > Now this is one phenomenon I never understood. Why is that a good > > thing?! > > Some people feel more secure if they're closer to the foundations. > You can see them in swimming pools, staying in the shallow end so they > can keep a foot on the bottom. It's especially fun when someone using Esc+Meta+Alt+Ctrl+Shift makes fun of GUI IDE users for the bloat of their software, then turns around and declares the superiority of their own choice in comparison to Vim. cake || eat -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ] "The measure on a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." - Thomas McCauley