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From: ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
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: 16 Mar 1997 01:21:27 GMT
Organization: Universidad Nacional de San Luis - Argentina
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In article <33243791.259225453@usenet.cise.ufl.edu>, Wayne Hyde wrote:
>On 2 Mar 1997 03:30:13 GMT, ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina)
>wrote:
>>In article <5f8657$24l8$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, rroger@ibm.net wrote:
>>>In <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
>>>>[Peter da Silva]
>
>>>>| > If you used ed, vi was a blessing. If you used vi, emacs is a blessing.
>
>>>>| I used emacs first.
>
>>>>| I still prefer vi.
>
>>>>I used ed first. I prefer vi for small changes, and emacs for any serious
>>>>work. I found emacs much easier to learn than vi.
>
>>>Screw all that shit. I just use the Warp e or epm editor. They are both heads
>>>above anything on Unix.
>
>>No way! epm doesn't have a lisp interpreter, a hanoi tower mode or a IRC
>>client builtin :-)
>
>You forgot a news reader. (gnus) Plus, you can use emacs' eliza to
>generate USENET replies with about the same level of quality content
>as a certain fellow in cooa.
Not to mention the 3 web browsers, the shell, the telnet client, the
spreadsheet, the version control system, and many things any fellow
emacser uses every day <g>.
And yes, the eliza thingie can be used to fool some rather annoying
people :-)
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