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From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <9059@claris.com>
Date: 11 Mar 89 02:40:38 GMT
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From an article by walkerb@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Brian Walker):
> 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.
>
With the version of emacs I grew up on, and with enough work, you could 
program it to act exactly like vi.

That's on of the main advantages (I think) of emacs: I can customize it
to my heart's delight.  I can make any key do anything.  If I don't like
something, I can change it to something I do like.  I don't know how many
times I've wanted to do that with other text editors/word processors!!

Having been spoiled by emacs, I really dislike vi.

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