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Article #3303Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself?
From: Eirik Fuller
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1988 08:58
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1988 08:58
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In article <1414@spp2.UUCP> baur@spp2.UUCP (Steven L. Baur) writes: > ... > >GNU-Emacs, the editor manly enough to edit itself. Don't leave home without >it. > According to this argument, you should be editing with adb :-) This tidbit of info is certainly consistent with gnumacs' X icon, the bitmap of a kitchen sink. I'd rather have an editor that can edit gracefully and other programs that do other things, than one program that does everything but nothing particularly well. I'm not explicitly saying I don't think GNU-emacs does anything well. In fact, I'm favorably impressed with its X mouse support. I still prefer vi, though.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!eirik From: eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: Is your editor manly enough to edit itself? Summary: kitchen sink Keywords: binary editor Message-ID: <3047@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM> Date: 11 Sep 88 08:58:35 GMT References: <1414@spp2.UUCP> Sender: news@tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 17