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Date:      Tue, 11 Jun 2002 17:41:12 -0700
From:      rob <rob@pythonemproject.com>
To:        "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: gui editors - mostly just griping (you've been warned) I gotta vent  somewhere.
Message-ID:  <3D0698A8.9C047411@pythonemproject.com>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> On 2002-06-11 09:57 +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > I thought vi and emacs were the only Unix editors anyway...
> 
> These are lies of the Emacs and vi folk.
> The only *real* editor of UNIX is ed(1).
> Here's the proof:
> 
>     $ head -56 /usr/local/share/emacs/20.7/etc/JOKES | tail -6
>     When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
>     *and* Emacs are just too damn slow.  They print useless messages like,
>     'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'.  So I use the editor
>     that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
> 
>     Ed, man!  !man ed
> 
> /me ducks and runs
> 
> - Giorgos
> 
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Will it syntax highlight FORTRAN?  Thats what led me to nedit
originally.  Now I prefer it for everything.  Rob.

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