Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1992 01:43

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In article <ROISE.92Jan15125924@sumax.seattleu.edu> roise@sumax.seattleu.edu (Linda Roise) writes:
>In article <FRIEDMAN.92Jan14174205@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> friedman@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman) writes:
>
>      `ed' is the standard text editor.  The man page (ed(1)) says so.
>
>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."  The
>man pages may differ according to the flavor of Unix one is running.
>My system is Umax (Encore Multimax).

   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.

     ...

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