vi vs emacs in a student environment

[00704a-Liber]

In article <449 at jonlab.UUCP> jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
>You may
>prefer emacs and csh, but you better know vi and sh.  The latter
>properly prepares students for their post-collegiate days.

Maybe.  The problem is:  there is so much to vi and so little that can be
found out (did you ever try to find a manual around a college campus?).
For instance:  how many college students, after using Unix and vi for 4
years, could tell you how to substitute ALL occurrences of the word 'foo'
with the word 'bar' in a given document?  Or what a lowercase 'f' does?
Or how to pipe output to a command?  Not very many people.  If they prefer
emacs, let them use it!

>The same argument is valid for edlin in the MS_DOS world (did I
>really say that word ;-)?).  You may not prefer edlin, but you
>should know how to use it.

Since both vi and emacs are available for MS-DOS, there really is no point
in learning how to use edlin.  Always try to get the best tools for the
job!

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