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From: miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Summary: welcome to the past...
Message-ID: <5552@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Date: 9 Mar 89 17:16:26 GMT
References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <9653@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY
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In article <9653@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

> Must we get into the flame wars about different Unix(TM) text editors
> again?  I {\em really} don't think we're going to get any more out of
> it this time than we have at any time in the past.  I think they
> keyword when it comes to editors is "tolerance" -- you like your
> editor, other people like theirs, and it should stay that way.

Well, that's true; everybody has a right to their own opinions and tastes, BUT:

You can use vi all you want, and it may work just fine for you.  Fine; that's
your business.  But you should be aware that while you are putt-putting along
in your Sopwith Pup, most of the rest of us have climbed into P-38 Lightnings.
You may be very comfortable with the Pup, but the real world has left you
behind.  The Pup may serve you very well the rest of your days, but God help
you if you ever find yourself in serious financial competition with somebody 
who uses up-to-date text editors.  

In the 1970s, vi was the greatest thing since hot fudge sundaes.  But check
your calendars.  The world moves on, and "it should stay that way" is an
attitude that blows away with the wind every decade or so.  I'm sure that this
was the same argument used when transistors began to replace vacuum tubes: 
"I like tubes, I'm comfortable with them, and I'm going to continue to use 
them.  It should stay that way."  Guess what happened to all those vacuum tube
freaks?

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