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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <3370@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 10 Mar 89 13:50:58 GMT
References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <9653@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <5552@brspyr1.BRS.Com>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <5552@brspyr1.BRS.Com>, miket@brspyr1.BRS.Com (Mike Trout) writes:
> 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.

Balderdash.

vi might be hard for some people to learn (though god knows why... it's the
only editor I know of for UNIX with a consistant syntax), but it's got
features I can't do without. I haven't found another editor, on any machine,
that does a decent job of supporting regular expressions for search and
replace... something I use continually.

You like analogies? How about this one.

You can use $(your-favorite-editor) all you want, and it might work just
fine for you. Fine; that's your business. But you should be aware that
while you're backing your Caddilac out of the driveway and coaxing it down
the street, we've already been to the grocery and back.

> you if you ever find yourself in serious financial competition with somebody 
> who uses up-to-date text editors.  

This is so weird I can't begin to address it. I'll just ask how much of
programming is coding? Some of us even use pencils and paper when designing
a system...

> Guess what happened to all those vacuum tube freaks?

They got good jobs at audiophile magazines?
-- 
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