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From: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs vs. FSE
Message-ID: <1313@garth.UUCP>
Date: 27 Aug 88 01:39:52 GMT
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Reply-To: smryan@garth.UUCP (Steven Ryan)
Organization: INTERGRAPH (APD) -- Palo Alto, CA
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>Here's such a thing:
>
>ed is a vw bug
>ex is a vw rabbitt
>vi is a vw scirocco (with convertible roof down, stuck down... :-)
>
>emacs is John Madden's CBS-provided travelling bus, but saddled with a
>gas stove, bulletproof windshield wipers, separate radios for each
>station, ZX-81 computer with two keyboards (both stuck in cyrillic mode),
>redundant drivers, swimming pool, velodrome, pigeon coop, kitchen sink...

I use to think NOS FSE was a turkey, but using vi, I think it's a Ford.