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From: nmm@apss.ab.ca (Neil McCulloch)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor Wars
Summary: Wait a mo'
Keywords: editors, vi
Message-ID: <1143@apss.apss.ab.ca>
Date: 17 Apr 89 02:40:36 GMT
References: <175@hcr.UUCP> <587@alice.marlow.uucp> <4048@ttidca.TTI.COM> <23162@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Organization: Alberta Public Safety Services
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In article <23162@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>, ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
> ...  Why must this newsgroup, at intervals
> of roughly six to eight weeks, go through a round of "only a shithead would
> use vi, only an asshole would use emacs" type of exchanges?

Lot's of useful stuff comes out of such discussions, especially for
novice users. Certainly, editors are the most basic interative tools
users use. And certainly, they seem to about the worst documented.

So, although it pains you, and perhaps a lot of others, and maybe you've
heard it all before, it's certainly useful. In my experience, the best way
to kill a discussion that no longer has a useful S/N is to change the
subject. As it happens, this editor wars is a recurring one for very
good reasons.

Perhaps someone would post a summary of where vi is the best tool, occasional
editting of ascii files, small files and so forth, and where emacs is
best, programming, multiple files, constant editor use and that sort 
of thing. I sure that would be useful.

neil