vi vs emacs in a student environment

[Ge' Weijers]

In article <449 at jonlab.UUCP>, jon at jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) writes:
# As an employer, if I see that an employee (that's what the students
# will be trying to become) lists UNIX experience on their resume, I
# expect that employee to be able to work with the standard tools.  If
# they can be more productive by using non-standard tools, wonderful.
# But the choice of supplying/not supplying that tool is ultimately
# mine.  But the student/prospective employee should be prepared to
# work in whichever environment I supply.  Vi experience does that
# for the student.

An employee should be given the right tool for the job. It is doubtful
whether vi is the right tool. It has a very idiosyncratic user interface
(so has emacs). 

Ge' Weijers (mcvax!kunivv1!hobbit!ge)
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