Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!ut-emx!chpf127 From: chpf127@ut-emx.UUCP (J. Eaton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student enviro Summary: MANY MANY moons Message-ID: <4037@ut-emx.UUCP> Date: 9 Jul 88 03:59:41 GMT References: <370@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <47800011@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <2819@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM> Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Lines: 24 In article <2819@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM>, terryl@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM writes: > In article <3d1d2b9f.d8e9@apollo.uucp> (Gary Allen) writes: > >I guess my favorite > >so far has been EDT but that generally requires VMS > ..., but I couldn't let the comment about EDT go by with- > out voicing my disapproval. > > ***NOTE*** > > I used EDT on a VMS 1.6 system (i.e. MANY, MANY moons ago), so what I > say may not be true now, but it certainly was back then. > What was the worse thing about EDT I remember??? Well, it was a line- > oriented editor, Not true anymore, though it does have a line oriented mode, which I rarely use. Actually, vi is the most line oriented full screen editor I have ever used -- I can't make the cursor backup or move forward over the end of a line. Seems like an obvious thing to want to do, no? J. Eaton UT Department of Chemical Engineering Wasting time with news, and using vi.