Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!aru From: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Decent Unix Editors!! (one man's opinion, anyway) Message-ID: <11071@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 16:25:04 GMT References: <846.280ca9ab@vger.nsu.edu> <1991Apr23.155426.18260@cs.umn.edu> Reply-To: aru@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Sri-Man) Distribution: na Organization: Purdue University Lines: 27 In article <1991Apr23.155426.18260@cs.umn.edu> brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith) writes: >In peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > >>Popularity does not prove anything. MS-DOS is the most popular >>operating system in the world, judging by the number of users. > >No, popularity alone doesn't say much. But, vi comes with every unix No one said what the criteria was for "popular" was. >emacs. GNU emacs is more powerful, more flexible, and has "Zippy the >Pinhead" quotes... Agreed...vi people should admit this..its great for debugging code. >Well, yes, that is true. BUT, the standard emacs keys (the 8-10 keys >for cursor movement, delete-char, kill-line, etc.) are also found in >the Athena string widget, the Motif string widget, the Open Look News to me, doesn't work on my terminal. Although the arrow keys work on vi. :-) Look guys, you know this vi vs gnuemacs thing is not going to get anywhere, so why start what looks like a flame war between emacs and vi. So lets just drop it. You guys sound suspiciously like Amiga users. ;-) Sri