Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 20:56

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In article <1992Jan16.195954.19709xtifr@netcom.COM> xtifr@netcom.COM (Chris Waters) 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. 

   Only if you define "inadequate" as not agreeing with this point of view.
   Which has the odor of circular reasoning to me.  The man pages here
   don't call ed the standard, but I find the man to be quite adequate,
   thankyouverymuch.  :-)

Some people really have no clue.

	-mib

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From: mib@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?
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