vi vs emacs in a student environment

P. Ashton paul at cantuar.UUCP
Tue Jun 28 09:58:33 AEST 1988


We are in the middle of deciding which editor to teach students next
year, and are looking at vi and emacs. We have a couple of questions

(i) we have heard emacs is somewhat resource hungry. What experiences do
people have with students using emacs with regard to resource use
(environment GNU emacs on a Vax 11/750 running 4.3BSD, and on sun 3/50s
and 3/60s).

(ii) is vi available for VMS (if so what are the details)?

Please reply by email - I will post a summary.

Paul Ashton.

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