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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Looking for a Simple Text Editor
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Date: 31 Aug 88 02:43:32 GMT
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In article <330@quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <813@kuling.UUCP> irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide) writes:
>>Do ":set showmode" and see the vi mode you're in.
>
>Which version of VIle is that?  I have "Version 3.7, 6/7/85" running
>under SunOS 3.2, and it says "showmode: No such option" when I try that.

What is this news group for?  In six months of reading it, I
would guess that at least sixty and perhaps eighty percent of the
postings are vi vs emacs flames.  These discussions remind of
teenagers arguing (back in my high school days) the merits of
Fords vs Chevrolets.  In retrospect, it is clear both were sleds.

How about putting some effort in writing a real editor - which in
my case means the ability to handle Japanese, Chinese, and
Korean, in addition to the usual collection of simple-minded
northern European languages?

If posters can't do that, perhaps there could be a contest for a
witless pun to match VIle.   I would start the round with
emacsulator....

E H. Kinmonth, Hist. Dept.,  Univ. of Ca., Davis Davis, Ca. 95616
916-752-1636/0776

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