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In article <11726@lanl.gov> dph@lanl.gov (David Huelsbeck) writes:
>From article <1777@wpi.wpi.edu>, by jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen):
>> So assuming people do similer things with emacs and vi, 
>>  emacs is about 3 times 
>This is a very unlikely assumption unless the vast majority of your
>emacs users are novice users.  How many of these people are using
>emacs to read news and mail? ...

Via, ah, subprocesses?  If emacs forks off a subprocess to read the
news, it doesn't get charged for the time spent in those processes.
If your emacs _is_ getting charged for that time, you'd better bitch
at your system administrator, because something is rotten in the
state of Denmark.

>... In a university setting where far more users are in the
>compile-run-edit-compile... mode than most places this sort of thing
>would start to add up very quickly.  Since vi can't do any of this...

It's not really relevant, but it's very easy to do compiles from inside
vi.  :!make will do the job just fine, for instance.

>... It [sic] likely that emacs
>gets a distribution of users that's weighted more towards the
>power-user end of the spectrum.

Ahh, this is obviously some strange usage of the phrase `power user' that
I was not previously aware of.

   -david parsons
   -orc@pell.uucp