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From: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student enviro
Message-ID: <246@pigs.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jul 88 17:34:48 GMT
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Reply-To: haugj@pigs.UUCP (Joe Bob Willie)
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In article <8235@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>In article <1045@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>>There does not exist a decent editor on UNIX, or for that matter any other
>>system I have ever used.
>
>Have you tried the Grand editor (current incarnation of the RAND
>editor)?  How about Sam, the most "decent" editor I've ever used?

the most decent editor i've ever used is "vi".  and i keep around
a set of turing machine macros just in case an editor flame war
breaks out. ;-)

- john.
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