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- From: vds7789@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com (Vincent D. Skahan)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.144912.1311@aw2.fsl.ca.boeing.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:49:12 GMT
- References: <Bt0BJG.HAv@cs.psu.edu> <714096328snx@n5ial.chi.il.us>
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- >In article <Bt0BJG.HAv@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu writes:
- >> In an old(er) article, bvaughan@lotka.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan)
- >> writes:
- >>> I'm always amazed at the fact that the most rapidly evolving field of the
- >>> 20th century attracts so many people who adamantly refuse to evolve with
- >>> it.
-
-
- not to get into the religious part of it, but...
-
- well, there reaches a limit in the number of editors that you can
- expect somebody to use. Let's see, what systems have I been on in
- the last year and what editors have I been REQUIRED to use as part
- of my job (sys-admin and user)...
-
-
- environment required also-available
- to use for use
-
- VMS edt tpu
- All-in-one wps+
- Apollo DM_editor vi,xedit
- Ultrix vi xedit
- DOS grrrrr...... edlin,some PD/shareware stuff
- DOS (home) qedit vi,memacs,ved,WordPerfectOffice
-
- Not to fan the flames of the vi_[stinks|is-great] folks or the
- alt.religion.emacs folks, but there are only two editors that I've
- found that are everywhere and can be used to teach folks one editor
- for all operating systems.
-
- vi-like
- emacs-like
-
- The issue is support. I can't pick emacs because it's not supplied
- by the vendor, with the same version, on every OS. If you limit the
- issue to unix'y OS's, I can't pick anything other than vi since that's
- supplied by the vendor everywhere and is the same (love it or not)
- everywhere.
-
- When the 'one-true-editor' appears and shows up on all systems from
- the vendor, I'll reconsider.
- --
- --------- Vince Skahan ----------- vince@atc.boeing.com ---------
- I will not pledge allegience to Bart.
- Chalkboard in Bart the Daredevil
-