Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!ncar!oddjob!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!urbsdc!wombat From: wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi and emacs questions : summary of Message-ID: <29500030@urbsdc> Date: 15 Aug 88 03:48:00 GMT References: <626@cantuar.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:cantuar.UUCP:626:urbsdc:29500030:000:707 Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!wombat Aug 14 22:48:00 1988 /* Written 6:22 pm Aug 6, 1988 by paul@cantuar.UUCP in urbsdc:comp.unix.questions */ One person replied that Unix programmers have to know vi, and that emacs should only be taught to people who already know vi. /* End of text from urbsdc:comp.unix.questions */ Funny, I thought I'd been a unix programmer for 4+ years but I speak very little vi (10-15 commands). ed works well enough for getting your system into a state where it can run emacs. "I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly. "That's not the answer to *every* problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said. *Software*, Rudy Rucker Wombat uunet!uiucuxc!urbsdc!wombat, wombat@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM