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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!garlic.com!fox.almaden.ibm.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!158.43.192.17!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!warwick!bignews.shef.ac.uk!kusogari From: kusogari@shef.ac.uk (Earl H. Kinmonth) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Date: 8 Mar 1997 20:49:16 GMT Organization: Organization? What organization? Lines: 25 Message-ID: <5fsjcc$oa7@bignews.shef.ac.uk> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ehrtv$7jp@news.rsn.hp.com> <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no> <5f8657$24l8$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> Reply-To: ehk@gol.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kuso.shef.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163430 comp.os.linux.networking:71265 comp.os.linux.setup:101570 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6257 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2753 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56195 comp.os.os2.advocacy:272882 rroger@ibm.net wrote: : In <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes: : >[Peter da Silva] : Screw all that shit. I just use the Warp e or epm editor. They are : both heads above anything on Unix. That may well be the case, but I need a bit of convincing. Consider availability. I can get vi for any flavor of UNIX. I can get vi for OS/2 (MKS Toolkit), I can get vi for NT (MKS Toolkit), I can get vi for MSDOS (MKS Toolkit, various freebie clones), etc. In contrast I can get "e" for OS/2 and IBM-PCDOS. Similarly, consider e-macs, which I do not like at all. You can probably get it for just about every current OS. Even if a given editor is not <perfect> at least not having to learn a different set of commands every time you switch the OS substantially reduces your work load. -- Earl H. Kinmonth, Kanji Users Service Operation (KUSO!), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England S10 2UJ