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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
Message-ID: <7105@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 28 Aug 88 06:57:54 GMT
References: <4912@fluke.COM> <2557@shark.TEK.COM> <809@kuling.UUCP>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
Organization: F.B.N. Software, Austin TX
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In article <809@kuling.UUCP>, irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide) wrote:
> In fact ALL vi commands and operators are single letter mnemonics!

ZZ

> This my eighth-grader son learnt after a few minutes of 'vi' wordprocessing
> for a school project... He is (at least) moderately intelligent.

My objection to vi is not the command set, but the seemingly infinite
number of visually indistinguishable modes.  emacs is also modal, but
modes are visually distinguishable.  emacs also doesn't require that
you switch modes so often either.
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