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From: fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer)
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Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 28 Mar 89 12:21:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: sommar@enea.se's message of 28 Mar 89 04:25:53 GMT



In article <4392@enea.se> sommar@enea.se (Erland Sommarskog) 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.
>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. 

It's not UNIX that needs a "real" editor. Programmers simply need real
computers, not some flunky old vaxens.

Emacs is all the editor I need. And fast, too.

/Lars
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Lars Fischer,  fischer@iesd.dk, {...}!mcvax!iesd!fischer
Dept. of Math. and Comp. Sci., University of Aalborg
Strandvejen 19, DK-9000 Aalborg, DENMARK
Any suffiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
			-- Arthur C. Clarke