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From: ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: emacs vs vi
Message-ID: <497@ns.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jul 88 19:08:30 GMT
References: <16435@brl-adm.ARPA> <422@ns.ns.com> <7793@mhuxu.UUCP>
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In article <7793@mhuxu.UUCP>, tab@mhuxu.UUCP (Tracey Baker) writes:
>   But you do have to expend words explaining exactly what setup I need
> to get your command list to work...
  If I were adopting emacs as an editor I regularly gave to novices,
I'd have the configuration for our terminals worked out, and print
out the command chart for that configuration.  I'm really not interested
in declaring "flexibility" to be a disadvantage.
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	-- David Dyer-Bennet
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