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From: bicker@hoqax.UUCP (The Resource, Poet of Quality)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment
Message-ID: <1633@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 12:46:06 GMT
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In article <2844@ttidca.TTI.COM>, hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
> Just to add another perspective, here at The CAT Factory our official,
> standard editor is Rand e v19.  Having learned it first I, of course,
> prefer it to either vi or emacs.  Your mileage may vary.

That is a very telling statistic.

I learned vi first (well actually, I learned TECO first, but that's
another story) and then learned emacs.  I prefer emacs.  I wonder
how many people would be able to say the opposite.  
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