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[dave at cca.org]

woods at weird.com writes:

>Indeed.  I started with 'ed', then used a full-screen version called
>'fred' (which had an "open" mode which was very 'vi'-like) and then I
>discovered 'emacs'....  :-)

>I've learned more about 'vi' than most 'vi' users, but I still gravitate
>to something resembling 'emacs' and not back to anything like 'ed' or
>even 'fred'.

I'm really surprised some version of microemacs is standard
these days. It seems like a lot of emacs users fire up vi only
when they need something lightweight that starts up quickly.
For such people, microemacs would obviously be a better 
choice.

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