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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: replacement for vi
- In-Reply-To: Tom Christiansen's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:06:21 GMT
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:11:57
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- In article <1993Jan22.170621.19062@news.eng.convex.com> Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM> writes:
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- From the keyboard of ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett):
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- [Saccharine emacs rhapsodizing deleted]
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- : And before I get any flames from vi users, all I can say is,
- :if you haven't used GNU emacs for at least a week, and given it a fair
- :chance, then don't even bother replying. I've met very few people
- :who've used both and stuck with vi.
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- Ah, the naivete of youth.
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- I know many folks who've used GNU emacs and gone back to vi. These are
- world-class programmers who have legitimate reasons for their choices.
- Be not so quick to discredit your betters.
-
- --tom
- --
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- Ah, the inflexibility of the aged.
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- Be not so quick to judge my work, Tom, since you've probably never
- even seen it. I too am a world-class programming artist.
- --
- Don't blame me, I voted against Amendment 2!
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- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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