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Article #72600Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?
From: Phil Howard
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 01:26
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 01:26
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friedman@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes: > Your man pages are inadequate, then. Ed is the standard text editor, >and it will always *be* the standard text editor. The experience users >know this already. > > >ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1) > >NAME > ed - text editor > >SYNOPSIS > ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ] > >DESCRIPTION > Ed is the standard text editor. > > ... But who says that the ed(1) man page is the authority of which editor is standard? Maybe we should have ANSI pick the standard editor so that NO ONE will recognize where it came from. -- /***********************************************************************\ | Phil Howard --- KA9WGN --- pdh@netcom.com | "The problem with | | depending on government is that you cannot depend on it" - Tony Brown | \***********************************************************************/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,70095a683cc8572a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: ff485,459d66e7bfcdecc7 X-Google-Attributes: gidff485,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1992-01-19 17:43:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!apple!netcomsv!pdh From: pdh@netcom.COM (Phil Howard) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,alt.religion.emacs Subject: Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users? Message-ID: <1992Jan20.012613.26892pdh@netcom.COM> Date: 20 Jan 92 01:26:13 GMT References: <1992Jan13.232112.12150@mtholyoke.edu> <FRIEDMAN.92Jan14174205@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <ROISE.92Jan15125924@sumax.seattleu.edu> <FRIEDMAN.92Jan15204341@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Lines: 30