Editors

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Tue May 26 12:37:11 CDT 2009


schoedel at kw.igs.net wrote:
>>>> > >> NOOO Actually .. The real holy war is
>>>> > >> VI vs EMACS  :-) 
>>> > >
>>> > > Pfft. Both are for clueless newbies. The only editor is TECO.
> 
> Of course vi is functionally similar to TECO, with the same "[count] command
> [argument ESC]" syntax; merely a few of the command names are different (It's
> those emacs guys that strayed far from the true path). Plus you get regular
> expressions.

So, how do you write programs in vi???
Besides. Who needs regular expressions? In TECO, you can do more...

Need I say that I don't consider vi similar to TECO at all? Atleast 
proper Emacs (not GNU-Emacs) still have TECO in the bottom.

	Johnny

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