vi vs emacs in a student environment

The Resource, Poet of Quality bicker at hoqax.UUCP
Tue Jul 5 22:46:06 AEST 1988


In article <2844 at ttidca.TTI.COM>, hollombe at ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
> Just to add another perspective, here at The CAT Factory our official,
> standard editor is Rand e v19.  Having learned it first I, of course,
> prefer it to either vi or emacs.  Your mileage may vary.

That is a very telling statistic.

I learned vi first (well actually, I learned TECO first, but that's
another story) and then learned emacs.  I prefer emacs.  I wonder
how many people would be able to say the opposite.  
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