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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!ux4.cso.uiuc.edu!scallon 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <396vps$8hd@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <37vv1c$7b3@adam.cc.sunysb.edu> <Cxvn33.5K7@indirect.com> <38f2nk$b32@masala.cc.uh.edu> <Cy7ECI.MHA@indirect.com> <38icuk$lda@masala.cc.uh.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ux4.cso.uiuc.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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