Re: The Death of vi?

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From: Richard Brooksby
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:01

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In comp.editors dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (DWT) wrote:

> G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) wrote in <3159@ucl-cs.uucp>:
> 
> > Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very
> > least, is now ubiquitous.
> 
> I've never understood why people who prefer vanilla ice cream to
> chocolate ice cream react to others' preference for chocolate by
> saying, "Oh?  I like vanilla better myself," yet those who prefer
> chocolate react to others' taste for vanilla with, "You're crazy!
> You're insane!  Everyone knows that chocolate is better!"  ... vi
> users ("Use emacs if you want.") to emacs users ("vi SUCKS!").
> 
> If you have a single-user system and don't want vi on it, rm it.  No
> one can legimitately question your right to do that.

rm!  How the hell can you use rm?  Everybody knows that rm is useless!
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An Emacs user with nothing against vi.

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From: richard@harlqn.co.uk (Richard Brooksby)
Subject: Re: The Death of vi?
In-Reply-To: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com's message of Sun, 1 Nov 1992 19:10:15 GMT
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