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From: trever@cyberdex.cuug.ab.ca (Trever Miller)
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
Followup-To: 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
Date: 3 Mar 1997 07:57:32 GMT
Organization: Cyberdex Systems
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Robb Shecter (rshecter@faculty.ed.umuc.edu) wrote:
: Emacs, vi & kin are asking us to do the equivalent of memorizing everything
: we've ever learned, word for word.
Why involve the brain? A text editor should not involve active thought to
do the basic insert/delete/global-search-replace, etc. Let the fingers
program themselves then forget about the actual commands.
--
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"The stupider it looks, the more important it probably is." -- J.R. 'Bob' Dobbs