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From: zavras@cleo.cs.wisc.edu (Alexios Zavras)
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Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Summary: vi = a REAL text editor
Keywords: vi emacs
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Date: 15 Mar 89 16:15:08 GMT
References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <252@torch.UUCP>
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In article <252@torch.UUCP> richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) writes:
>>From Ted Holden, HTE:
   [...]
>>and just get rid of vi which, along with nroff and troff and a couple
>
>ABSOLUTELY!!!!
>I HATE vi.
>
   [...]
>I have tried JOVE and am looking at CRISP, but what I really want
>is one that, when running X, you can use the mouse to copy around
>text, point to a place in the text, and resize windows dynamically
>without blowing up the editor. I have heard that a GNU EMACS can do
>at least some of this, and am trying to get the sources at the moment.
   [...]

	Eh ??? Excuse me, but vi can do all that (and a lot more, too :-).
It surely understands window resizes (SIGWINCH) (but what "dynamically"
means ?), you can go to any point by clicking the mouse (:set xmouse),
and you can copy around text using the mouse as always in the X Window
Environment...

	I'm sure GNU emacs can too all that, too, but I am not (yet)
a "knowledgeable user", so I can't provide details...

	Therefore, I remain a vi-fanatic_lover,

>Richard Nuttall               |    ukc!stc!datlog!torch!richard

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