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From: mart@euteal.UUCP (Mart van Stiphout)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <39@euteal.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 07:38:27 GMT
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Reply-To: mart@euteal.UUCP (Mart van Stiphout)
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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I dispute the necessity or desire to learn and use Lisp.
The language is a mess, numerous non orthogonal functions.
The program text is totally unreadable for anyone but
the Lisp adept.

As to emacs: I want an editor, not an environment. I have that
already. It is really unfair to compare vi and emacs.
Vi is excellent in what it is supposed to do, editing files,
not emulation the shell, rn, interpret C code, perform
window managing. We have all that.



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Mart van Stiphout
Eindhoven University of Technology
Design Automation Section
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
P.O.Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
Email: mart@euteal.UUCP
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