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From: Massimo Campostrini <campo@mail.difi.unipi.it>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 05 Mar 1997 14:50:51 +0100
Organization: Universita' di Pisa
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Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu> writes:
> kevin@kombat.acadiau.ca (Kevin Swan) writes:
> > 50 megs versus 234Kb. 'Nuff said. :)
>
> Yeah, that's $12 of my disk space. Who cares if it's a better editor? ;-)
My only problem with emacs is that it doesn't fit into a rescue
diskette. ;-) So every Unix sysadmin should know the basics of vi
(unless you plan to use ed). Besides, before the days of configure,
one had to use vi to edit emacs' config files.
--
Massimo Campostrini (an emacs user who owns a vi reference card)
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pisa.
WWW home page: http://www.difi.unipi.it/~campo/