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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
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Date: 8 Mar 1997 20:49:16 GMT
Organization: Organization?  What organization?
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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