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From: RAMontante <bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.111929.8902@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Organization: 'twixt Dali and Dada
References: <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu> <1991Jun05.153324.25760@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 91 11:18:22 -0500

glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) writes:
| 
| > I think I
| >studied the command set for about an hour or so, and I have been able to do
| >just about anything that you can possibly do with vi (which ain't much!-).
                                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Full-featured vi and emacs share the property of doing anything which can
be done, in a sense --- that is to say, macros exist for both editors which
implement Turing machines.  So if you can't do something in vi (or in emacs,
given five times as many keystrokes) it's your fault, not the editor's.

:-)