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From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 20 Feb 1997 12:39:08 GMT
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"Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> wrote:

> Or even vi, the most simple, yet incredible powerful editor there is.
> Microsoft has *never* created an editor with anything remotely like
> the usability and power of vi!

You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with
one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''.  (No, you don't need
to explain me vi in your followup.  I'm using it, as well as one or
two other editors.)

-- 
J"org Wunsch					       Unix support engineer
joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de       http://www.interface-business.de/~j