Re: vi and emacs

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From: Larry Maturo
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 19:11

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In article <1992Oct30.070718.13838@wixer.cactus.org> rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) writes:
>larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (Larry Maturo) writes:
>>I have seen a vi mode for emacs.  I don't remember any emacs mode for vi.  Is
>>such a thing possible or is vi too limited to imitate emacs?  [...]
>
>}!!emacs
>
>>| larry@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu
>
>*bow*
>-- 
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Felix Sebastian Gallo                              rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------


I'm no vi expert but the above looks suspeciously like it shells out and
executes emacs from vi requiring emacs to be available.  Is this true?


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