Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpsemc!gph From: gph@hpsemc.HP.COM (G. Paul Houtz ) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Sizes of various editors (was Re: Textedit wars (was vi vs emacs in a student environment)) Message-ID: <810013@hpsemc.HP.COM> Date: 12 Jul 88 21:59:27 GMT References: <2157@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Organization: HP Technology Access Center, Cupertino, CA Lines: 23 sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) writes: >In article, ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: >> >> Teach students "ed," that way they learn what regular expressions >> are. My wife . . . >Yeah, and why are students using video terminals? My wife and quite >a few people I know don't know why delete is 0177 (ascii). If Touche Michael. I first learned text editing on an IBM 029 keypunch machine, and that is why I liked programming in assembler (fewer key strokes per card). I wouldn't go back to it now for all the tea in China. I am new to UNIX and I learned regular expressions, not by using ed, but because I had a JOB TO DO that REQUIRED them. They are not really that hard to learn for most tasks. No job worth having is going to be denied to a student simply because they don't know VI or ED or regular expressions or EMACS. -gph