Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!vsi!sullivan From: sullivan@vsi.UUCP (Michael T Sullivan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment Summary: Cobwebs Message-ID: <752@vsi.UUCP> Date: 11 Jul 88 14:55:56 GMT References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu>Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 18 In article , ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > > Teach students "ed," that way they learn what regular expressions > are. My wife and quite a few people around here who were taught > "vi" and EMACS as their first editor have the slightest idea how > to construct regular expressions...of course, nobody around here > knows what the file system looks like now that they have FSCK. 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 people would just learn about paper tape there'd be lots more knowledge around here. Sure, productivity may drop off, but they'd know more. Now, about those high-level languages some of you use... -- Michael Sullivan {uunet|attmail}!vsi!sullivan V-Systems, Inc. Santa Ana, CA sullivan@vsi.com ons, workstations, workstations, workstations, workstations, workstations, work