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From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 12 Mar 89 16:27:07 GMT
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In article <1028@apss.apss.ab.ca> nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch) wrote:
>In article <252@torch.UUCP>, richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) writes:
>> ABSOLUTELY!!!!
>> I HATE vi.

>> I have only had to use vi in the last couple of months, before that
>> I have used decent custmisable editors (WYSIWYG) such as

>Look, vi might not do all you want it to do, and YOU might find it hard
>to use. However, you can teach a complete neophyte how to use vi in
>about 5 minutes, and it is powerful and customisable enough to meet
>your average user's needs.

	vi is fine as a programmer's editor, where the writer has to
	control all the line breaks anyway.  I use it all day long.

	It's not as good as a general-purpose text editor.  Try to
	teach a secretary vi AND troff in five minutes.

	WordPerfect is available for some Unix systems.

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