Re: VI??? GROSS!

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From: David Rowland
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 04:12

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In article <1crg39INN8ls@oak10.doc.ic.ac.uk> ep3@doc.ic.ac.uk (Manos Papatheofanous) writes:
>In article <Bwwt3r.B83@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> krisk@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kris Klindworth) writes:

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>Well, I've seen macros for vi which solve the Towers of Hanoi problem,
>solve mazes, emulate Turing machines, bouncing balls, and these are
>definitely _not_ the things ordinary text editors can do!
>

Can I have a copy?

By the way, My vote would be comp.editors.emacs, comp.editors.vi and
comp.editors.misc.

My personal perferance is emacs because it has a vi mode which enables
the tasks vi can do without having to remember the <ctrl> and <Esc>
combinations.
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From: david@datamark.co.nz (David Rowland)
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Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
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Date: 3 Nov 92 04:12:48 GMT
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