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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage...
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Message-ID: <7583@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 9 Aug 89 02:28:02 GMT
References: <3352@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4031@cps3xx.UUCP> <7559@cbmvax.UUCP> <5067@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <439@xdos.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Not really wanting to start a flame war, but...

In article <439@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
>The lack of windowing is less important on a system that itself supports
>windows, since you can use multiple system windows as a substitute. Cut
>and paste is supported in vi in a way painful to vi-novices and less
>elegant than e.g. emacs, yet again seems perfectly convenient when it
>happens by conditioned reflex.

	BTW, what do VI users do when they want to cut and paste _between_
files??  I never though of that before; it must be a pain.

	Editors are a religous issue, anyone who wants to flame about them
go to alt.computers.religion, please.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com  BIX: rjesup  
Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"