vi vs. emacs

[Michael A. Petonic]

In article <1208 at ficc.UUCP> peter at ficc.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
 >In article ... mikep at ism780c.isc.com (Michael A. Petonic) writes:
 >> Well, you could write a lisp function to do it.
 >Funny, this Emacs doesn't seem to have lisp. In fact, it's got a sort
 >of forth-like language. Oh, this one over here doesn't even have that
 >much. Hmmmm... are we comparing vi to GNU Emacs only, or to all
 >Emacsen? I dare say that GNU Emacs might make a believer out of me...
 >if only I could run it on this poor old 80286.

Well, that's like saying: ``I would run UNIX, but I can't get it
to work on this here 6502.''  For certain machines (ie, VAX-class and
above, and also 386 and 68K boxes), I use GNU.  If I'm going to
work on a Intel 8052 monitor, I don't complain that GNU is a
bad editor because it won't fit on something with 1K of RAM.

-MikeP
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Michael A. Petonic				mikep at ism780c.isc.com

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