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An interview with Linus Torvalds

An interview with Linus Torvalds

Posted Jul 2, 2003 18:04 UTC (Wed) by torsten (guest, #4137)
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Amazing. You have interviewed the top programmer in my [Linux} world, and you fail to ask the most important question.

Vi or Emacs?


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An interview with Linus Torvalds

Posted Jul 2, 2003 18:24 UTC (Wed) by xach (guest, #2349) [Link]

This is in the unofficial FAQ.

An interview with Linus Torvalds

Posted Jul 2, 2003 20:31 UTC (Wed) by johnny (subscriber, #10110) [Link]

Linus loathes Emacs. I think he uses a modified version of vi.

Emacs vs VI

Posted Jul 8, 2003 5:13 UTC (Tue) by lovelace (subscriber, #278) [Link]

Actually, according to question 10 of the FAQ which someone else posted, it says he uses
Microemacs. Granted, ME isn't emacs or vi, but it seems to be a lot closer to emacs than vi
which would tend to suggest that he doesn't quite loathe emacs...

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