Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1992 22:01

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roise@sumax.seattleu.edu (Linda Roise) writes:
 > Yikes!  I started to say, "It's not a text editor, it's a line
 > editor."  But of course, it is both.  I DID read the man page, though,
 > and find no reference to its being "the standard text editor."

Vanilla BSD man pages say,

DESCRIPTION
     Ed is the standard text editor.

Some resellers have changed the language, but ed is as close to a
standard editor as you'll get on UNIX.

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