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From: carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Use of ``vi'' for business office w
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Date: Sat, 20-Sep-86 12:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 20 12:05:00 1986
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In article <1246@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>
>	In my humble :-) opinion, I cannot think of any editor more universally
>useful than ``vi'' (yes, I know about Emacs, but I still prefer ``vi''). 

/* Written 10:50 am  Sep 12, 1986 by noemi@moscom.UUCP in snail:net.unix */
[ ... ]
And for an editor, I have never found anything leaner and meaner than vi.

You've obviously never seen BRIEF in action. Now THAT's an editor. All the
power of EMACS, but fast (pages don't plot, they appear), and a REAL undo.