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From: wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Editor Wars
Message-ID: <169@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: 17 Apr 89 15:09:09 GMT
References: <175@hcr.UUCP> <587@alice.marlow.uucp> <4048@ttidca.TTI.COM> <960@myrias.UUCP> <24@hcr.UUCP> <4129@ttidca.TTI.COM> <194@xochitl.UUCP> <156@inf.ethz.ch> <1715@iesd.dk>
Reply-To: wyle@ethz.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
Organization: Departement fuer Informatik, ETH Zuerich
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In article <1715@iesd.dk> amanda@iesd.dk (Per Abrahamsen) writes:
>> Here (again) are my 11 reasons for using vi:
>Again, 11 reasons to use `cat' as your editor...

Although somewhat absurd, this point is well-taken; reason 8, (simple
macros, not requiring knowledge or love of LISP) however is not a reason
to use cat, unless cat has macros I don't know about.  I use cat -s to
eliminate extra blank lines.  BTW: Has someone ported Stevie to CP/M?
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-Mitchell F. Wyle                         wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informationssysteme         wyle@inf.ethz.ch
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