If you could have anything in vi ...

[Randy S. Welch]

In article <1991Apr04.193344.16407 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

   why the devil should an editor compile, read mail, or read news?

I find being able to compile from the editor quite nice, if you have a
problem you can go right to it without having to remember what !@#!%!
line(s) you had a problem with.  It's a good enough concept for MS-DOS
(:-O) compiler companies to use... ( editor wars are bad enough, OS ones..)

   emacs is just a visual shell.

And I don't think you'll find too many arguments about that.  I think that
Len Tower said once that you can think of emacs as a windowing system for
character based terminals.

I'll stick with my emacs :-)

-randy

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