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On 19 Sep 1996 01:38:52 GMT, Thorfinn <thorfinn@zip.com.au> wrote:
>On a more serious note, emacs is an "editor with everything", so you
>can do everything you want from inside it... it's designed so that you
>fire it up on Sunday night after your big weekend, then shut it down
>on Friday evening before you go out and party. :)
>vi, OTOH, is merely an editor.  You can't read news, email, or even
>telnet inside of it... but then, why would you want to?  :) It's
>small, fast, and once you get the hang of using regular expressions
>and mappings, *extremely* powerful.  Oh, and you pronounce it "Vee
>Aye", by the way. :) Not "vie".
[...]
>In summary, Both are powerful, in different ways.  Both have
>*extremely* sharp and high learning curves, for the same reasons.
>Emacs suits some people's style, vi suits others.

*laughs*  For a self-admitted vi fanatic, that was offensively
rational!



gossamer

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