Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ivv1!hobbit!ge From: ge@hobbit.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student environment Summary: tools should be decent Message-ID: <290@hobbit.sci.kun.nl> Date: 5 Jul 88 15:05:26 GMT References: <399@cantuar.UUCP> <11418@steinmetz.ge.com> <6056@megaron.arizona.edu> <449@jonlab.UUCP> Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Lines: 18 In article <449@jonlab.UUCP>, jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes: # As an employer, if I see that an employee (that's what the students # will be trying to become) lists UNIX experience on their resume, I # expect that employee to be able to work with the standard tools. If # they can be more productive by using non-standard tools, wonderful. # But the choice of supplying/not supplying that tool is ultimately # mine. But the student/prospective employee should be prepared to # work in whichever environment I supply. Vi experience does that # for the student. An employee should be given the right tool for the job. It is doubtful whether vi is the right tool. It has a very idiosyncratic user interface (so has emacs). Ge' Weijers (mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge) -- Ge' Weijers, Informatics dept., Nijmegen University, the Netherlands UUCP: {uunet!,}mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge