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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!enews.sgi.com!news.sgi.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!uunet!in1.uu.net!205.152.0.23!news.atl.bellsouth.net!news.mco.bellsouth.net!zeno.fit.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!usenet.cise.ufl.edu!usenet From: wjhSPAM@cise.ufl.edu (Wayne Hyde) 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: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 16:35:04 GMT Organization: Delete 'SPAM' from my email address Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33243791.259225453@usenet.cise.ufl.edu> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5ehrtv$7jp@news.rsn.hp.com> <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no> <5f8657$24l8$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <slrn5hht4a.3pc.ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar> NNTP-Posting-Host: ras28.wec.ufl.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:163841 comp.os.linux.networking:71545 comp.os.linux.setup:101996 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6289 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2785 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:56580 comp.os.os2.advocacy:273689 On 2 Mar 1997 03:30:13 GMT, ralsina@ultra7.unl.edu.ar (Roberto Alsina) wrote: >In article <5f8657$24l8$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, rroger@ibm.net wrote: >>In <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no>, sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug) writes: >>>[Peter da Silva] >>>| > If you used ed, vi was a blessing. If you used vi, emacs is a blessing. >>>| I used emacs first. >>>| I still prefer vi. >>>I used ed first. I prefer vi for small changes, and emacs for any serious >>>work. I found emacs much easier to learn than vi. >>Screw all that shit. I just use the Warp e or epm editor. They are both heads >>above anything on Unix. >No way! epm doesn't have a lisp interpreter, a hanoi tower mode or a IRC >client builtin :-) You forgot a news reader. (gnus) Plus, you can use emacs' eliza to generate USENET replies with about the same level of quality content as a certain fellow in cooa. -- Wayne Hyde | System Administrator wjhSPAM@cise.ufl.edu | Delete 'SPAM' from my address before replying. http://coop.wec.ufl.edu/wjh | I speak for me, not my employers