Joke

[The Beatles]

Q: What's the most insulting thing you can say to a vi user?
A: ":! emacs"

[Gen. Volkov]

*Blink* I don't get it.

Course I could just be acting antisocial.

[Devari]

Heh, geek humour...

It refers to the vim vs. emacs "war" over which is the better editor amongst UNIX geeks.

:! <command>

in vim runs <command> in the shell. So, :! emacs runs emacs in the shell. The joke is simply that that command would launch emacs through vim; something that, given the background of the "war", could be seen as "insulting" to the vim user.

..... Did I just explain geek humour? I think I just did. :*laughs*:

[Philip]

Heh, geek humour...

It refers to the vim vs. emacs "war" over which is the better editor amongst UNIX geeks.

:! <command>

in vim runs <command> in the shell. So, :! emacs runs emacs in the shell. The joke is simply that that command would launch emacs through vim; something that, given the background of the "war", could be seen as "insulting" to the vim user.

..... Did I just explain geek humour? I think I just did. :*laughs*:

Funny, eh?
What?
I like to talk about anything. A lot of people like that.


I love TV shows about robots.
I like Computer Games. Quite honestly, I wouldn't worry myself about that.
Wow!Can you please rephrase that with fewer ideas, or different thoughts?
Is that a fact. I don't think that's possibe. Hmm. I'm glad you find this amusing.

[Devari]

Philip, you're wonderful. Not antisocial at all.