Article View: comp.sys.mac
Article #12263Re: good vi editor for the mac
From: Bell Scott
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 08:50
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 08:50
19 lines
1319 bytes
1319 bytes
In article <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> fink@Think.COM (Paul Fink) writes: >In article <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>, pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard) writes: >|> In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes: >|> >>I want a good vi . . . for the mac. >|> > >|> >Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-) >|> >|> No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs. There are a lot of things that are much >|> easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than >|> in a standard Mac 'word processor'. >|> >|> Tom > > "a good mainframe editor" ? My how times have changed. > To Tom: Just what can't you do in MSWord 5.0 that you can do in emacs? Scott R. Bell
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<Bu94Kw.4Mz@csn.org>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!teal.csn.org!bellReferences:
<lawton.715610572@armand> <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.mac.wanted,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!csn!teal.csn.org!bell From: bell@teal.csn.org (Bell Scott) Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac Message-ID: <Bu94Kw.4Mz@csn.org> Sender: news@csn.org (news) Nntp-Posting-Host: teal.csn.org Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc. References: <lawton.715610572@armand> <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <1992Sep5.221526.10841@uc.msc.edu> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 08:50:56 GMT Lines: 20