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From: xiaoy@ecf.toronto.edu (XIAO  Yan)
Subject: Re: vi and emacs
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.012420.16598@ecf.utoronto.ca>
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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 91 01:24:20 GMT

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>you people like this editor and support it. That's fine. But please do accept
>that this is old technology and should not have been made the POSIX standard
>in hundred years. That's a real shame. :-(
>
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In my opinion, the command structure (or rather, the interface structre) of
UNIX puts line break (RETURN) a promenent position and therefore vi and
emacs are therefore technology that goes with OS.  These line-based editors
work well with OS.  I really cannot see how you manage a UNIX system well
without knowing vi.   As philosophers say, behaviour complexity is a mirror
image of complexity of reality.  If you find vi too complicated, then reduce 
the needs of complexity at the first place.

Xiao
