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From: kwb@hpmtlx.HP.COM ($Keith Blackwell)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Line lengths (Re: UNIX needs a real text editor)
Message-ID: <580002@hpmtlx.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Mar 89 03:42:54 GMT
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Well, how's this for tolerance:
I use BOTH vi AND emacs (gnuvo) regularly and frequently.  Vi has a
few minor advantages that I like to take advantage of when editing
short files.  I haven't used some of the more advanced features of
vi, but its drawbacks are enough to make emacs my "preferred" editor.
Auto-save is an important feature that many vi users I have known
have wished they had had --- after a disaster (yes, even competant
vi users occassionally make stupid mistakes).
But the original posting DID have a valid point:

| AT&T should get together with Sammy Mitchell or
| somebody who knows how to construct reasonable modern text editors and
| come out with something up to 1989 standards for a text editor for V.4
The "standard" UNIX would do well to have a more advanced editor than vi.

| and just get rid of vi which, along with nroff and troff and a couple
This, however, is a dumb idea.  It wouldn't be UNIX without vi.
---
Keith "let's be reasonable, here" Blackwell