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From: walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 10 Mar 89 22:20:59 GMT
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In article <3370@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>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.

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.

In article <666@The_Machine>, floyd@The_Machine.NET (Pink Floyd) Writes:
> My editor is better than your editor, so go [explicative deleted] yourself.

Actually, for all of it's clunks and clatters, vi is livable.  I wouldn't mind
having a true full screen editor, but vi does offer the ability to work on any
terminal for which a termcap is defined.  It's command set isn't as bad as the
one for Emacs (as in, :wq is a lot easier to grasp than ^X^F).  And, you can
learn to hit the dreaded [esc] key.

On VMS however, my preferred editor is EVE.  It's a nice full screen editor
that works like I expect full screen editors to work.  On the down side, it 
needs VT-100 emulation or better so using EVE on the TVI-912 terminals around 
here is not.
--
an option to consider seriously.
Brian Walker, University of Colorado at Boulder
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