vi editor enhancement request

[Wm E Davidsen Jr]

In article <15948 at bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

| 2. Why is emacs more universal than vi, if emacs is NOT shipped by
|    default with most Unix systems, while vi IS shipped by default with
|    most (if not all -- anybody here work on a system that doesn't have
|    vi :-) Unix systems?

  emacs is more universal because it is on more types of systems. If you
are operating in a very sheltered environment which is UNIX only you
don't care, but having portable p.d. version of emacs makes it more
widely available.

  This should not be confused with a claim that available=better, just
an explanation of propigation in the real world.
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