Re: is it really worth the time to go from vi to emacs?

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From: David Kastrup
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 00:00

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In article <vaohlzqged.fsf@dehn.math.nwu.edu> richter@dehn.math.nwu.edu (Bill Richter) writes:

       David> I don't know why I even have switched from ed.

   If you're thinking of switching back, see emacs-19.31/etc/JOKES,
   excerpted below.
...

Reminds me of an old fortune I got, something like that:

Ken Thompson has designed a new car. The entire dashboard has just one
display which will flash red entirely whenever something requires the
driver's attention.

Mr. Thompson: "The experienced driver usually will know what is wrong."


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David Kastrup     Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de  Telephon: +49-234-700-5559

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