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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Wouldn't it be a lot easier if these guys just swapped jobs?
Message-ID: <171@harald.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 89 17:06:22 GMT
Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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|From: rush@xanadu.llnl.gov (Alan Edwards)
|Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
|
|I am a systems administrator for a small network of Sun computers
|(Unix) at LLNL.  Recently, the department I work for hired a
|person who absolutely refuses to learn a new editor.  I tried
|to teach him the basic vi commands; figuring that vi is easy
|to get started with, and it is readily available.  But he is
|used to working with the EDT editor on a VMS system and WILL
|NOT BUDGE.

|From article <840@swbatl.UUCP>, by uucibg@swbatl.UUCP (3929):
|I do *NOT* want to start another editor war, but I've recently started doing
|some work on a DEC machine running VMS.  My preferred editor is VI (and no I
|will not discuss why :-).  If anyone knows of any vi-modes for VAXTPU or
|EDT or EVE or whatever, I'd really, really, really appreciate it (learning a
|new editor is such a time consuming process and I don't have much time right
|now).