Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ames!ncar!noao!nud!fishpond!fnf From: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment Message-ID: <111@fishpond.UUCP> Date: 4 Jul 88 23:05:04 GMT References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <1832@stpstn.UUCP> <449@jonlab.UUCP> Reply-To: fnf@fishpond.UUCP (Fred Fish) Organization: occasionally Lines: 26 In article <449@jonlab.UUCP> jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes: >The original poster solicited comments on which editor was most appropriate >in an education environment, i.e. which would best serve the students >need and prepare them for post-academia. > >Just because emacs IS AVAILABLE for system X does not mean that on >implementation Y of system X it will be there. Vi will be! Yeah, You can probably count on vi being available if and only if "system X" == "some modern version of Unix". What percentage of computer science graduates end up working with Unix? What percentage of ALL graduates, regardless of major, that work with computers, end up working on Unix? (No, I don't have these numbers either :-) If "system X" is not "some modern version of Unix" then I still maintain that the probability of having an EMACS-like editor available is far greater than the probability of having a VI-like editor available. Yes, graduates should probably know how to at least start up vi and perform simple editing tasks, particularly if they are in computer science. This discussion probably should continue in comp.editors. -Fred -- # Fred Fish, 1346 West 10th Place, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA # noao!nud!fishpond!fnf (602) 921-1113