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From: hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: vi editor
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Date: 26 May 89 15:15:19 GMT
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From article <1940@astroatc.UUCP>, by brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot):
> In article <554@megatek.UUCP> hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
> <From article <24788@beta.lanl.gov>, by pt@beta.lanl.gov (Paul A. Thiessen):
> <> I know it has been mentioned before, but can someone please tell me where to
> <> get a good VI editor for the PC?
> <        ^^^^
> <Good editor and VI in the same breath are oxymoronic.  .....
> 
> That may be true, but when one uses VI on the UNIX machine at work, it is
> just a little easier, mentally, to use the same editor on my 386 PC.  I know
> so many different programs now, that every little bit of commonality is a plus.

I use Emacs and VI on UNIX and EVE on VAX/VMS at work.  At home, I use 
ME as my primary programming editor, sometimes IBM Personal Editor
on my consulting clients computers, and WordPerfect for word-processing
needs.  I don't find any more hassle in moving from one editor to
another than I do in programming in C, FORTRAN, 80186 assembly and VAX11
assembly all in one day.  Maybe I am unusual in that I move from one
computing environment to another constantly throughout the day and have
no trouble with the context shift.  I don't think of myself as anything
unusual and attribute my fellow computer users as being on a par.

	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121

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