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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.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!howland.erols.net!psinntp!uunet!in2.uu.net!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!brokaw.wa.com!not-for-mail From: tzs@halcyon.com (Tim Smith) 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: 15 Mar 1997 12:43:16 -0800 Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. Lines: 14 Message-ID: <5gf1l4$rqv$1@halcyon.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5f62nm$krc@verdi.nethelp.no> <5f8657$24l8$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <5fsjcc$oa7@bignews.shef.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: coho.halcyon.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:164791 comp.os.linux.networking:72155 comp.os.linux.setup:102838 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:6345 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2818 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:57091 comp.os.os2.advocacy:275295 Earl H. Kinmonth <ehk@gol.com> wrote: >Consider availability. I can get vi for any flavor of UNIX. I can get >vi for OS/2 (MKS Toolkit), I can get vi for NT (MKS Toolkit), I can get >vi for MSDOS (MKS Toolkit, various freebie clones), etc. > >In contrast I can get "e" for OS/2 and IBM-PCDOS. > >Similarly, consider e-macs, which I do not like at all. You can >probably get it for just about every current OS. Even if a given Also, there are several vi emulators for Emacs. I've heard that one of them is very faithful to vi. --Tim Smith