Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!marque!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi vs emacs in a student enviro Message-ID: <1073@ficc.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 88 15:48:21 GMT References: <370@umn-d-ub.D.UMN.EDU> <47800011@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1045@ficc.UUCP> <8235@brl-smoke.ARPA> Organization: SCADA Lines: 34 In article <8235@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes: > In article <1045@ficc.UUCP> peter@ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes: > >There does not exist a decent editor on UNIX, or for that matter any other > >system I have ever used. > [followed by a very incomplete description of his ideas for an editor] Complete enough to implement it, if you're of a mind to. Think "VI with alt-keys instead of modes". > "There does not exist" requires either proof or exhaustive investigation. You're right. I hereby change that to "I have not found a decent editor on UNIX...". > Just because neither "vi" nor "EMACS" strikes you as decent does not > mean that some other editor might not. True. Haven't found it yet. Closest yet has been "Brief" on the IBM-PC after excessive quantities of hacking the macros. > Have you tried the Grand editor (current incarnation of the RAND > editor)? No, I tried the Rand editor in a couple of incarnations. Does it still draw boxes around all your windows? (:-<) > How about Sam, the most "decent" editor I've ever used? No, how does it work and how do you get it? -- -- `-_-' Peter (have you hugged your wolf today) da Silva. -- U Ferranti International Controls Corporation. -- Phone: 713-274-5180. CI$: 70216,1076. ICBM: 29 37 N / 95 36 W. -- UUCP: {uunet,academ!uhnix1,bellcore!tness1}!sugar!ficc!peter.