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From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: A better EMACS for FreeBSD?
Date: 25 Oct 1994 07:43:16 GMT
Organization: University of Houston
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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 !).
>
>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.   ;^)

--
Woody Jin