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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!cs.uwp.edu!nelson From: nelson@cs.uwp.edu (Jeremy Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: 24 Feb 1997 03:30:19 GMT Organization: University of Wisconsin - Parkside Lines: 10 Message-ID: <5er20b$r6l$1@news.inc.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <330ea403.78621875@mambo> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.uwp.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.misc:2600 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:54454 comp.os.os2.advocacy:269614 Sang K. Choe <sangria@inlink.com> wrote: >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. There are plenty of more user hostile programs out there. Vi is heaven compared to ed. And people have used ed for real editing in the past. Jeremy