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From: raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen)
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Subject: Re: comp.editors.vi
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Date: 7 Feb 91 18:04:03 GMT
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In-Reply-To: leech@homer.cs.unc.edu (Jonathan Leech)

In article <1123@borg.cs.unc.edu>, leech@homer (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>There is something which might get discussed *less*, to wit,
>flamage by rabid vi/emacs users against each other ...

This hypothesis will probably go down the drain the first time
somebody cross-posts into (the proposed) comp.editors.vi and
comp.emacs a question like

   I need to do X.  Either vi or emacs is fine.

whence follows a massive flame-fest between vixen and emacsen over
which editor is better-suited to the task.

My personal feeling is that a split is unnecessary.