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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard?
Message-ID: <1520@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 30 Oct 89 15:38:01 GMT
References: <21251@adm.BRL.MIL> <1989Oct27.220632.5531@wolves.uucp>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1989Oct27.220632.5531@wolves.uucp>, ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) writes:
|  	Of course some wizards use vi!  Those whom eschew the baroque
|  verbosity of the wild variants of the one true UNIX appreciate the clean
|  and simple style of vi (despite its origins ;-)  Of course, for clean and
|  simple, not much can beat TECO ;-) ;-)

  Most of the people I think are even low grade wizards know vi, emacs,
and ed, because you never know what machine you have to fix next. Hell,
I bet a real wizard know edlin, sos, and teco, just to help the heathens
convert. 
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon