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Re: Emacs vs. vi: # of users?

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From: Stephane Boucher
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1992 13:37
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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
   be interested if anyone has any (even fuzzy) data on how many users
   of each editor there are.  

I recall reading in "Life with Unix" that the number of vi and emacs users
was about the same.
--
  ,
Stephane Boucher, ing. jr.
sbo@vlsi.polymtl.ca
sbo@info.polymtl.ca
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