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From: brian@anv.net (Brian Murray)
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: 9 Mar 1997 13:25:04 GMT
Organization: Access Nevada Inc.
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Message-ID: <5fudng$lur@raven.eva.net>
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In <5ftoqp$jde$3@peachy.apana.org.au>, Graham Broadbridge <grahamb@peachy.apana.org.au> writes:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Frederick Haab <haab@efx7.no-spam.turner.com> wrote:
>: Robb is right, people get religious about some editor because
>: *they* know how to use it. The best editor is the one you know
>: how to use.
>
>No, the best editor is the one that is Guaranteed to be there on
>any system you are likely to have to work on.
>
Ummm... why? Why not just one that you know well and that lives on a
laptop? Or that lives on a machine accessible to you from your laptop for
that matter, or that is accessible from the machines on which you will work?
It seems to me that if you're always using what's on any machine on which
you may have to work then you're always starting from scratch. If you're
bringing along your own machine, or something to let you connect to a
machine of yours, then you don't just have your favorite editor available,
you have all sorts of files, bits and pieces that you can use and reuse
without having to write them again from scratch, from memory.
<snip>