vi vs emacs in a student enviro

[J. Eaton]

In article <2819 at tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM>, terryl at tekcrl.CRL.TEK.COM writes:
> In article <3d1d2b9f.d8e9 at apollo.uucp>  (Gary Allen) writes:
> >I guess my favorite
> >so far has been EDT but that generally requires VMS
 
> ..., but I couldn't let the comment about EDT go by with-
> out voicing my disapproval.
> 
> 	***NOTE***
> 
>      I used EDT on a VMS 1.6 system (i.e. MANY, MANY moons ago), so what I
> say may not be true now, but it certainly was back then.
>      What was the worse thing about EDT I remember??? Well, it was a line-
> oriented editor,

  Not true anymore, though it does have a line oriented mode, which I
  rarely use.  Actually, vi is the most line oriented full screen editor
  I have ever used  --  I can't make the cursor backup or move forward
  over the end of a line.  Seems like an obvious thing to want to do, no?

  J. Eaton
  UT Department of Chemical Engineering

  Wasting time with news, and using vi.