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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 11 Mar 89 22:16:00 GMT
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In article <9837@smoke.BRL.MIL>, bogstad@smoke.BRL.MIL (William Bogstad ) writes:
> 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
> 	Just out of curiosity ,but what particular feature or non-feature
> of vi makes it not a WYSIWYG editor?  With vi you get exactly what you
> see on your screen no more and no less.
> 
Ah, but wimps who would say "wishywig" with a straight face would never be
content with monopitch, monofont, ragged-edge printed documents, no matter
how unimportant the actual text is...		:-)

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