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- From: bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott)
- Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
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- References: <lawton.715610572@armand> <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:50:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> fink@Think.COM (Paul Fink) writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>, pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes:
- >|> In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
- >|> >>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
- >|> >
- >|> >Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
- >|>
- >|> No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs. There are a lot of things that are much
- >|> easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
- >|> in a standard Mac 'word processor'.
- >|>
- >|> Tom
- >
- > "a good mainframe editor" ? My how times have changed.
- >
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- To Tom: Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs?
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- Scott R. Bell
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