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From: gast@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gast)
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Subject: Re: Xedit is better than vi and emacs
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Date: 12 Apr 91 03:42:46 GMT
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In article <1991Apr4.033238.9089@m.cs.uiuc.edu> joshi@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Anil Joshi) writes:
>Best thing to do would be to go through the IBM manuals on XEDIT, REXX
>and vm/cms to see how it is better than vi/emacs. The documentation is
>ample and very definitive replete with examples. The same cannot said
>about either vi or emacs.

Oh, I get it, XEDIT/REXX is better because it has 2000 pages of manuals.

Another good thing about XEDIT/REXX, you get a virtual card punch and
a virtual card reader.  :-)  Perhaps they come with CMS.

Do you work for IBM?  (I only ask because you have posted info about
internal IBM programs).

David