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From: djohnson@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
Keywords: editor
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Date: 4 Feb 91 23:35:34 GMT
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In article <52234@sequent.UUCP> cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) writes:
>(Blush)  You're right...  I don't know WHAT came over me!  That said,
>let me just state for the record that ALL 'real programmers' use vi,
>which, as has been noted previously, is pronounced vee-eye.  Only
>inferior wimps who fear the power of UNIX/AmigDOS and the shell use
>novice level editors like emacs. :-) :-) :-)

True enough.  All novices switch to Emacs as soon as they discover
that there are no vi manuals in existance in the entire
company/school, and that the resident vi guru learned the trade by
reading the source code.
-- 
Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Political correctness is Turing undecidable.