On Wed, 16 Apr 1997, Vadim Vygonets wrote: [ a bunch of correct things about emacs and vi]
An anecdote regarding vi and emacs use: We had a whole department who were using vi under System V.2 on 3b2/400s back in the middle 80s. I installed microEmacs (whatever was current at the time). By the middle of the next month there was not a single faculty member and few students who were still using vi. MicroEmacs commands are similar in flavor to (big) emacs. Once we had a decent Linux system running, everyone used (big) emacs. The only reversions to vi were folk who had already leared vi somewhere else and were committed to it. I know both vi and emacs fairly well, and *much* prefer emacs' damned peculiarities to vi's equally damned pecularities. So much for vi being in any sense a casual user's editor. This is a religeous war, and I apologise for continuing the discussion. --David emacs, the one true editor! vi, because it takes too much time to type emacs! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LINUX: the FREE 32 bit OS for [345]86 PC's available NOW! David B Teague | User interface copyrights & software patents make [EMAIL PROTECTED] | programing a dangerous business. Ask me or [EMAIL PROTECTED] spy counter-intelligence wild porno sex gold bullion Soviet Bosnia clipper -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .