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From: hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment
Message-ID: <2844@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Date: 1 Jul 88 19:08:07 GMT
References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <109@fishpond.UUCP>
Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcb.tti.com (The Polymath)
Organization: The Cat Factory
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In article <109@fishpond.UUCP> fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
}In article <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> lm@megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) writes:
}>As a consultant I'll volunteer the following advice:  don't get people used to
}>emacs. ... Because emacs is available on "some" unix machines.
}>Vi is available on almost all unix machines.  ...

}Until recently you could use almost exactly the same argument for NOT
}teaching vi ...  Now there are reasonable vi clones for many of the more
}commonly used systems ...  There are also enough EMACS's available in
}source ... that any EMACS addict ... will find some way to get one
}installed ...

Just to add another perspective, here at The CAT Factory our official,
standard editor is Rand e v19.  Having learned it first I, of course,
prefer it to either vi or emacs.  Your mileage may vary.

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