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From: rustcat@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: EMACS better than Vi?
Message-ID: <3796@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 7 May 88 05:35:27 GMT
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Reply-To: rustcat@csli.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
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Keywords: Gnuemacs ~= OS

My reason for using Emacs is simple.  I just do everything in it.  My .cshrc
file puts me into emacs, and I don't get out until I have to logout.  Mail,
news, shell windows, lisp, telnet and virtually ANY other program I want to
run from man pages to the obfuscated C codes.  The only thing I haven't been
able to do in Emacs is play Nethack.  

For me (as a user), Emacs *is* the operating system.  If there is some-
thing I don't like or can't do, I go and hack away at some elisp code until
it's fixed.  

Seeing all this, is there *any* reason why I or anyone should use `vi' or any
other editor except that they don't have Gnuemacs in the first place?

						-- Vallury Prabhakar
						-- rustcat@csli.stanford.edu