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From: sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 27 Mar 89 19:01:18 GMT
Organization: ENEA DATA AB, Sweden
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Gregg Wonderly (gregg@ihlpb.ATT.COM) writes:
 >My opinion is that as long as xMACS editors continue to use a language
 >such as lisp for programability there will continue to be resistance.
 >Every version I have tried to implement vi's % operator in has failed
 >miserably in speed.
 >
 >If you really want to see a fast programable editor get someone to show
 >you DEC's TPU for VMS.  If you want to see how I would like to see VI,
 >look at my VI emulation in TPU (select regions, multiple windows and
 >buffers etc).

Hear, hear! Just couldn't agree more. Emacs may have cool 
functionality, but I doubt to call it a serious editor,  
after all the times I just waited for it to echo a typed 
character. Now, TPU, that is a serious editor. 
-- 
Erland Sommarskog - ENEA Data, Stockholm - sommar@enea.se
I used to say "It could have been worse, it could have been Pepsi",
then I drank a Diet Coke...