Re: [ILUG] Emacs vs. Vi

From: Robert Elliott (rde at domain irelands-web.ie)
Date: Thu 22 Apr 1999 - 14:43:51 IST


> > >Interestingly^2, a whole ten minutes of the Linux tapes are devoted to
> > >learning VI. How long does it take to say 'use emacs instead'?
> >
> > about as long as it takes to say "join the dark side luke."
> >
>
> Yah hay ! - it's been ages since I had a good bout of editor wars :-)
>
This is unexpected. I didn't expect *anyone* to view vi as anything
other than an unusable piece of shite. Okay, I was unnaturally fond of
edlin, and distraught when no 32-bit version was released, but stil...

It just goes to show. What, I'm not sure.

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