Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Dmitry Gutov]

Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:

> I understand that you did a simple google search and couldn't find what you
> were looking for (vim in calculus actually means something else), so if
> you're not willing to do a little extra work and expect me to prove the
> most basic trivial things, I'm going to ask you to put something on the
> line, i.e., when I show you Vim's calculus plugins, you never post on this
> mailing list again.  deal?

This is an unreasonable request. Jay put some amount of effort to find
and write down an example of something that would be supposedly hard to
do in Vim.

If you're unwilling to reciprocate that effort by giving an example of
doing that in Vim, maybe *you* should stop posting here instead.

--Dmitry

>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> Jai Dayal <dayalsoap@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > If one does not know the basics of vim then one should not make such
>> strong
>> > incorrect statements.
>>
>> Like  I said, eager to be offended.
>>
>> > Yes Vim can do calculus
>>
>> Cool; I didn't know that.  How does vim do it?
>> Honest question: emacs can do
>>  M-: (calc-eval "integ(x^2*exp(x),x)")
>> to get
>>  "x^2 exp(x) + 2 exp(x) - 2 x exp(x)"
>> How does vim do that?
>>