DWB ownership (was: vi vs emacs in a student environment)

[Randy Orrison]

In article <810009 at hpsemc.HP.COM> gph at hpsemc.HP.COM (Migration Engineer) writes:
|           I have found that not knowing VI in the UNIX world can 
|   make life harder.
|
|   Obviously, the two KEY editors in UNIXland are VI and EMACS.
|   Therefore, either of these editors is probably sufficient to
|   get around a little.   Perhaps students should be taught an
|   introduction to both and let them make their own decision?

What?  When I bought my Unix-pc, it came with (of course...) UNIX*.  This
computer had only ONE editor on it.  Which one?  Not vi, not emacs, no...
it was ed.  That's right, ed.  Fortunately, I know how to use ed (at least
a little) and so was in a much better position than my friend who only
knew vi (useless).  I believe that students should be tought the editor
that is most likely to be available on all Unix systems: ed. :-)  :-)


On the other hand, (almost) the first thing I did when I got my development
kit was to compile MicroEmacs.  I have ported MicroEmacs to every machine
I've done serious work on.  Here's what I really believe:  teach them emacs,
and give them a copy of the source for MicroEmacs.

	-randy

*UNIX is a trademark of AT&T Bell Labs (or somebody with a similar name) and
 so should be taken as the definitive definition of what's exists.
-- 
Randy Orrison, Control Data, Arden Hills, MN
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