Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!osu-cis!att!ihnp4!twitch!hoqax!bicker 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 References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <2844@ttidca.TTI.COM> Organization: Semantic Engineering Center Lines: 15 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. -- /kohn/brian.c AT&T Bell Laboratories Semantic Engineering Center The Resource, Poet of Quality ...ihnp4!hoqam!bicker (201) 949-5850 "It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." - Wm. Ralph Inge, D.D.