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Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Phil Howard
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.
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