Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:43:16 -0800 From: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: FreeBSD-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) Message-ID: <3AAD34E4.E4B72CC1@acuson.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103100913330.10006-100000@corten8> <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3AAD1D20.48F149B1@acuson.com> <03c301c0ab32$2c7d5660$847e03cb@apana.org.au>
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Doug Young wrote: > > The period when VI was considered "user-friendly" was undoubtedly around the > time when the CEO of IBM declared that the world market for personal > computers > could go as high as five units. This was 1981-82. The IBM PC was still relatively new, but there were certainly more than five units :-) For a Unix user at that time, vi *was* the friendliest editor. Maybe you always remember your first love fondly, but even today I still use vi for editing configuration files, even if I happen to already have XEmacs up and running... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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