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From: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: edt or vi?
Message-ID: <598@infinet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 22:22:44 EST
Article-I.D.: infinet.598
Posted: Thu Dec 11 22:22:44 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 19:05:44 EST
References: <241@tellab5.UUCP> <963@hdsvx1.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhorn@infinet.UUCP (Rob Horn)
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Organization: Infinet, Inc.  North Andover, MA
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Summary: edt users preferred emacs to vi

In article <241@tellab5.UUCP> etan@tellab3.UUCP (Nate Stelton) writes:
>
>I am a UNIX/vi user who was recently told about EDT (under VMS), and I would
>like to solicit some comments.  What I'm wondering is:
>
>1.  Is EDT a superior text editor to vi?
>
I will avoid any attempt to answer superiority.  Editors are a
matter of personal taste, so you must try it yourself and decide.
But, we recently moved some VMS/EDT users to a UNIX environment and
they found it much easier to adapt to EMACS (Gnu) than to vi.  They
also decided that the available EDT emulation modes were not enough
like EDT to be worth it.  They bit the bullet and learned native
emacs.


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