Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!know!pluto.hemel.bull.co.uk!ewoods From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: vi Alternative Required Message-ID: <1990Dec12.120209.13628@hemel.bull.co.uk> Date: 12 Dec 90 12:02:09 GMT References: <1616@ukpoit.co.uk> <7471@castle.ed.ac.uk> <4448@lib.tmc.edu> Sender: @hemel.bull.co.uk Organization: Bull HN UK Lines: 21 Nntp-Posting-Host: brno joshi@cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes: >2. vi and emacs both follow in the foot steps of general UNIX >philosophy of software development - "To heck with the user -- >We are buddy-buddy with the power user/programmer. I'll help >programmers write more and more utilities, more and more system >software stuff, I'll put in this cute feature in here that is going >to give the programmers so and so". What about the end-users? Maybe so, but I've never met a *real* end-user (who wasn't an ex-programmer, DBA ...) who liked ISPF's editor either!! Eoin. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Eoin Woods, Software Development Group, Bull HN Information Systems, ~ ~ Maxted Road, Hemel Hempstead, Herts HP2 7DZ ~ ~ Tel : +44 442 232222 x4823 ~ ~ Fax : +44 442 234084 ~ ~ < Eoin.Woods@hemel.bull.co.uk > ~ ~ < When do we start news group comp.os.emacs ? :-) > ~