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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: vi-like editor for the IBM PC
Message-ID: <808@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 4 Mar 89 18:26:44 GMT
References: <1247@dogie.edu> <733@masscomp.UUCP> <5507@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Reply-To: ftw@quasar.masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
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Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation - Westford, Ma
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In article <5507@brspyr1.BRS.Com> miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) writes:
>In article <733@masscomp.UUCP>, I wrote:

>> I've tried this editor.  It's called "STEVIE", and it is acceptable only
>> for you smallest editing tasks.  It's just too flaky to be used for anything
>> you consider important.

>In other words, it's exactly like vi itself.

You must have forgotten a smiley face there.

I won't argue the merits of one editor vs. another.  I was pointing out that
the last version of STEVIE I picked up was simply unrelaible.  I don't recall
having vi itself crash in the middle of something on my machine at work.



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