Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.3-rc4

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 04:29 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708042127160.5037@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <85bqdndqgr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, David Kastrup wrote:

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> > None that any normal user would want to use.
> 
> Linus, do you really think that the editor _you_ use is used by more
> people than Emacs?  Think again.

No.

But I'm also not confused enough to think that people should use micro-emacs for reading man-pages.

The UNIX philosophy is "do one thing, and do it well".

Man-pages with man. html with a web browser. And edit stuff with an editor.

Why the *hell* do you confuse my choice of editor with my choice of man-page format? I didn't.

That whole "do everything in emacs" is a disease. And then emacs users think that it's "sane".

		Linus

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