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From: arun@aps.anl.gov
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 20 Feb 1997 16:07:49 GMT
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory
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In <330c6276.13111256@news.direct.ca>, glend@direct.ca (Glenn Davies) writes:
>On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:09:25 GMT, sangria@inlink.com (Sang K. Choe)
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 19 Feb 1997 16:58:43 +0100, "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!
>>
>>Sorry, power I can agree with, but usability? That's an utter and
>>total crock. Vi is the single most user hostile application I have
>>ever had the misfortune of using or trying to teach another to use.
>>
>
>Have we already forgotten edlin?
>------
>Glenn Davies
Glenn,
Point well taken, however, who claims it (edlin )to be incredible in power
and usability?
Arun
arun@aps.anl.gov