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Re: VI??? GROSS!

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From: Bernd Felsche
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 01:56
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In <1992Nov3.155032.29510@pegasus.com>
   richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:

>>From the keyboard of aswx266@chpc.utexas.edu (Michael Lemke):
>>:In article <1992Oct28.214551.21668@wixer.cactus.org> rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
>>:>9118543@sunvax.sun.ac.za writes:
>>:>>Is there no better editor for UNIX than VI?
>>:>>I mean... what happened to the good old full screen ones?

>>:>psst.  vi is full screen; 

>>:head -24 is full screen ;-)

>Emacs is full scream!

Emacs is full /dev/kmem, /dev/swap and /dev/keymap -- as we
descend into yet another editors war! :-)

Still, what does one expect of an operating system
masquerading as an editor?
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From: bernie@metapro.DIALix.oz.au (Bernd Felsche)
Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
Message-ID: <1992Nov6.015644.21010@metapro.DIALix.oz.au>
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