[rescue] Re:EMACS

Greg A. Woods rescue at sunhelp.org
Wed Jun 27 13:22:44 CDT 2001


[ On Wednesday, June 27, 2001 at 10:21:14 (-0400), Joshua D. Boyd wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Re:EMACS
>
> [....] but vi is for people who want to do things the pure way.

vi is about as impure as things can get in the text editor world.

It's a horrible mish-mash of ed, ex, and curses.

If you want a pure text editor then use 'ed'.  If you want a full-screen
pure editor then use 'sam'.

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