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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!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!olivea!news.sgi.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!news From: John McKinney <johnpmc@ix.netcom.com> 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 Date: Sun, 09 Mar 1997 23:40:06 -0800 Organization: Netcom Message-ID: <3323BAD6.51@ix.netcom.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> <33174D6F.41C6@efx7.no-spam.turner.com> <5ftoqp$jde$3@peachy.apana.org.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lbx-ca25-17.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Sun Mar 09 11:43:05 PM PST 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U) Lines: 28 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163633 comp.os.linux.networking:71418 comp.os.linux.setup:101799 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6269 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2765 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56442 comp.os.os2.advocacy:273340 Graham Broadbridge wrote: > > In comp.os.linux.misc Frederick Haab <haab@efx7.no-spam.turner.com> wrote: > No, the best editor is the one that is Guaranteed to be there on > any system you are likely to have to work on. > > Emacs may be great (although I found it clownish), but in my job > which is fixing UNIX boxes, I can always rest safe in the assurance > that ed and vi will be there. Even UNIX like clones (Linux) have a > vi clone that is at the very least reasonably compliant with the vi > command set. > > That's a big win. > > If you spend your time fixing Windows boxes then maybe Word is the > answer for fixing up autoexec.bat/config.sys/win.ini/system.ini > (but I'm prepared to bet that you use 'edit' when available and > that you have a freebee copy of qedit around for when its not :-). > By the way I get some good use out of an editor called Lemmy while in Win95. It has a vi interface and has a parser for color highlighting Java, C, C++, and HTML syntax. A nice change over edit and vastly superior to notepad or that ilk. John McKinney <johnpmc@ix.netcom.com> Fountain Valley, CA USA