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Article #31Re: The Death of vi?
From: Felix S. Gallo
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:17
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 02:17
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G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>
>Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very least, is
>now ubiquitous.
>
The emacs interface is not superior to the vi interface. As has been
stated approximately MAXINT times in this newsgroup, different people
have different preferences, and the existence of one editor does not
mandate the uselessness of another. One might as well ask, "why are
pears, guavas, apricots, oranges and apples all for sale at my local
supermarket? Aren't they all just fruit?"
I'm sure that when yet another editor comes out -- perhaps one that
catches and corrects phrases like "at the the very least" -- various
sects will hail that, too, as the new messiah. We vi users will
doubtless continue to get our work done.
>____
>
>Gordon Joly Phone +44 71 387 7050 ext 3703 FAX +44 71 387 1397
>Internet: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!{uunet,uknet}!ucl-cs!G.Joly
>Computer Science, University College London, Gower Street, LONDON WC1E 6BT
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