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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Message-ID: <1989Nov18.155950.392@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 18 Nov 89 15:59:50 GMT
Article-I.D.: NCoast.1989Nov18.155950.392
References: <5593@ethz-inf.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Followup-To: comp.editors
Organization: North Coast Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, OH
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As quoted from <5593@ethz-inf.UUCP> by wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle):
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| Emacs is too big, tries to do too much.  On a workstation with a big screen
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STRAW MAN ALERT

Just because Gnumacs comes with two built-in mail readers and etc. doesn't
mean that Emacs in general is "too big, tries to do too much".  Jove contains
none of that cruft -- and is of comparable size to vi, and IMHO is much more
usable.

++Brandon
(P.S.  Arguing the merits of vi on a bitmapped X screen is pretty worthless to
those of us who still must use 80x24 character terminals as well.  If I were
able to use an editor on a windowing terminal, I'd move heaven and earth to get
"sam", not vi.)
-- 
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