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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
Summary: Oh, boy!
Keywords: editor
Message-ID: <737@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 26 Jan 91 04:20:56 GMT
References: <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu>
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
Lines: 46

In article <1991Jan25.000005.23489@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> eww@engr.ucf.edu (Mr. Eric W. Wampner) writes:
>HEY GUYS, GET REAL, VI is the only editor for me!
>its cheap, small, powerfull, and whats more

You get real.  GnuEmacs rules.  Once the port is done, and I have a jillion
megs of ram or so, I'll be in editor heaven.

>YOU NEVER LEARN ALL [VI] CAN DO.

Yeah, well.

>Emacs, ugh a trap I fell into on a unix system, not knowing
>the really strange control-x stuff, I logged into another terminal
>and killed myself off......

The control/x stuff was sent down from God.  Now it's hard-coded into my
fingers.  I wouldn't learn vi on a bet.

>At least MEmacs has menus....
>
>PAY FOR AN EDITOR? you pay for a word processor, I want my
>editor small.

Hey! Your raising 3 different issues hear, in seemingly random fashion.
1. Menus - personally, when I'm typing in text, I don't want to bother with
	   the mouse.
2. Price - GnuEmacs is *free*.
3. Size  - Oh, well.  Somebody really ought to tattoo "All the world's not
	   a Un*x" on every FSF terminal, computer, and manual.  Not to
	   mention "not everyone has virtual memory with gigabytes of
	   swap space!"

>This flame brought on by repeated worthless comments by huge
>numbers of people, this opinion is not shard by anyone, including
>the author, who recently learned that he was using Z, a part of the
>MANX developement package, much to his surprise. :->

I like the comments I've been seeing about editors here.  And from what I've
heard, if you mistook Z for a vi, you're spammed.

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