Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Castor Fu
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 20:35

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friedman@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:

>In article <1992Jan13.232112.12150@mtholyoke.edu> jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz) writes:
>>For the sake of the argument of which editor is more "standart", I'd

>   `ed' is the standard text editor.  The man page (ed(1)) says so.

after all, what other editors are available when you get stuck halfway 
rebooting?  Ultrix, in DEC's infinite wisdom leaves you with only
ed on /root.  Of course at  45K compared to vi's enormous 175K it makes some
small amount of sense.  Then again, our 5000's console doesn't support
any escape sequences, so it's probably all for the best.  

Sun didn't leave /bin/ed in /sbin. . . . so I guess it isn't that standard 
though.

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