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From: "Klaus T. Aehlig" <aehlig@linta.de>
To: Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>
Subject: Re: value of maintaining emacs-mode packages in ports
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On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:12:06AM -0800, Perry Hutchison wrote:
> "Christopher J. Ruwe" <cjr@cruwe.de> wrote:
> 
> > ... Emacs, the very good operating system
> > missing only a decent editor ...
> 
> Perhaps someone should port vi to it?

That actually already happened quite a while ago. Just add

(require 'viper)

to your .emacs file.