VI(1) vs. the world
Andy Rosen
arosen at ulowell.UUCP
Fri Oct 10 19:55:29 AEST 1986
In article <672 at zeus.UUCP> bobr at zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
>In article <357 at maynard.UUCP> campbell at maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>>The only use I can find for vi is editing the EMACS sources while I'm
>>porting them to a new machine.
>
>Here, here! That's about all I ever use vi for also.
I couldn't live without emacs BUT vi is a lot faster starting up, mainly
with small files (at least on the 4 different UN*Xes I've used). So,
I always use vi when playing with ~/.login, etc.
I always use emacs when doing any kind of software development.
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