Re: The Death of vi?

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From: DWT
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1992 19:10

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G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) wrote in <3159@ucl-cs.uucp>:

| Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very least, is
| now ubiquitous.

I've never understood why people who prefer vanilla ice cream to chocolate
ice cream react to others' preference for chocolate by saying, "Oh?  I like
vanilla better myself," yet those who prefer chocolate react to others'
taste for vanilla with, "You're crazy!  You're insane!  Everyone knows that
chocolate is better!"  Similar comparisons can be made of Pepsi drinkers
("You like Coke? OK.") to Coke drinkers ("Pepsi?  How in hell can you drink
Pepsi?") and vi users ("Use emacs if you want.") to emacs users ("vi SUCKS!").

If you have a single-user system and don't want vi on it, rm it.  No one can
legimitately question your right to do that.

David W. Tamkin   Box 59297   Northtown Station, Illinois  60659-0297
dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com    CompuServe: 73720,1570    MCI Mail: 426-1818

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