Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!sri-spam!sri-unix!hplabs!pyramid!decwrl!decvax!wanginst!wang!ulowell!arosen From: arosen@ulowell.UUCP (Andy Rosen) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: VI(1) vs. the world Message-ID: <663@ulowell.UUCP> Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 05:55:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ulowell.663 Posted: Fri Oct 10 05:55:29 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Oct-86 22:15:11 EDT References: <4327@brl-smoke.ARPA> <357@maynard.UUCP> <672@zeus.UUCP> Reply-To: arosen@ulowell.UUCP (Andy Rosen) Organization: University of Lowell Lines: 17 In article <672@zeus.UUCP> bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes: >In article <357@maynard.UUCP> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes: >>The only use I can find for vi is editing the EMACS sources while I'm >>porting them to a new machine. > >Here, here! That's about all I ever use vi for also. I couldn't live without emacs BUT vi is a lot faster starting up, mainly with small files (at least on the 4 different UN*Xes I've used). So, I always use vi when playing with ~/.login, etc. I always use emacs when doing any kind of software development. UUCP : wanginst!ulowell!arosen disclaimer: USnail: Andy Rosen if ($opinion == liked) then ULowell, Box #3031 set credit = $mine Lowell, Ma 01854 else (set credit = $his ; unset opinion) endif