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- From: richard@harlqn.co.uk (Richard Brooksby)
- Subject: Re: The Death of vi?
- In-Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com's message of Sun, 1 Nov 1992 19:10:15 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.140152.9049@harlqn.co.uk>
- Organization: Harlequin Ltd. Cambridge, England
- References: <3159@ucl-cs.uucp> <Bx1x94.3IH@ddsw1.mcs.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:01:52 GMT
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- In comp.editors dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) wrote:
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- > G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) wrote in <3159@ucl-cs.uucp>:
- >
- > > Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very
- > > least, is now ubiquitous.
- >
- > I've never understood why people who prefer vanilla ice cream to
- > chocolate ice cream react to others' preference for chocolate by
- > saying, "Oh? I like vanilla better myself," yet those who prefer
- > chocolate react to others' taste for vanilla with, "You're crazy!
- > You're insane! Everyone knows that chocolate is better!" ... vi
- > users ("Use emacs if you want.") to emacs users ("vi SUCKS!").
- >
- > If you have a single-user system and don't want vi on it, rm it. No
- > one can legimitately question your right to do that.
-
- rm! How the hell can you use rm? Everybody knows that rm is useless!
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- An Emacs user with nothing against vi.
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