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From: dstewart@fas.ri.cmu.edu (David B Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi editor enhancement request
Keywords: vi display emacs
Message-ID: <7008@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 17 Nov 89 04:49:27 GMT
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In article <15948@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <20668@unix.cis.pitt.edu> yahoo@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Kenneth L
>Moore) writes:
>>The big deal though is that emacs is "universal".  We currently have 3
>>versions of emacs (that I know of) one on the VAX, one on our Ultrix and
>>one on our Suns.  I currently switch from machine to machine with very
>>little difficulty.  Caveat: A few of the commands are slightly
>>different.
>
>  Emacs is "universal"?  Two questions about this:
>
>2. Why is emacs more universal than vi, if emacs is NOT shipped by
>   default with most Unix systems, while vi IS shipped by default with
>   most (if not all -- anybody here work on a system that doesn't have
>   vi :-) Unix systems?


I like 'vi', and I don't with all my personal macros, and a Sun Workstation
with multiple windows, I don't see enough reasons to switch to Emacs.
(But Don't start telling me all the advantages, I'm sure I've heard them 
all from my emacs-fanatic office mate).  

The funniest thing is that when my office mate was forced to install
a new system, he had to learn 'vi' just to be able to set up the system
and install Emacs.  So much for Emacs being "universal"!

"Long Live VI, and Long Live the UNIX Command Line" :-)

~dave


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