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From: scallon@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Brendan J. F. Scallon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A better EMACS for FreeBSD?
Date: 2 Nov 1994 03:07:40 GMT
Organization: Illinois Circuit Court of the Jihad
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Woody Jin (wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu) wrote:
: In article <Cy7ECI.MHA@indirect.com>, Barnacle Wes <wes@indirect.com> wrote:
: >Woody Jin (wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu) wrote:
: >: Well, I have tried to find better editors than vi, but have found none.
: >: I found myself always going back to vi (Bill Joy is a genius !).

That's the only editor that I have unconsious knowledge of.
: >
: >A long-standing joke at UniForum (I think) was that Bill Joy used to open
: >every address he made by asking if anyone had written a replacement for
: >vi.  Even Bill didn't consider it a work of beauty.  ;^)

: But what I heard (could be just a rumor) was that Richard Stallman is a
: vi-user.   ;^)

Proof that there can only be one editor.  Emacs doesn't allow control charact
ers.  IOW it sucks.

--
"Your words, waste in decay
Nothing you say, reaches my ears anyway" -ELP, The Endless Enigma

Brendan John Francis Scallon                 Liberal yet politically incorrect
scallon@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu                               Catholic yet pro-choice
					       vi-user yet no pocket protector