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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: replacement for vi
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.170621.19062@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:06:21 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <93015.113527BPS106@psuvm.psu.edu> <9136@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com> <EJH.93Jan18200012@khonshu.colorado.edu>
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- From the keyboard of ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett):
-
- [Saccharine emacs rhapsodizing deleted]
-
- : 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.
-
- Ah, the naivete of youth.
-
- 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
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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-
- lint(1) is the compiler's only means of dampening the programmer's ego.
-