[rescue] emacs vs. Word!, was Re: SUN PCMCIA SBus Card

[William Barnett-Lewis]

On Mon, May 28, 2018 at 11:37 AM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
> On 05/28/18 09:30, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Vi is deeply modal, which alone rules it out for me, and _couldn't_ be made
>> to conform to the CUA model without it not being Vi any more.
>
> I will use vi when there is nothing else installed.

Back in the 90's when I was admining a DG Aviion Unix box with X-Terms,
my usual comment was that VI exists to edit the Emacs makefile.

I always had at least one emacs process running.

Of course these days I always have DOSBOX installed so I can run my
copy of Wordstar 7... :D
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