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Re: Email Editors
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Date: 
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:35:53 GMT
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jsproat@geocities.#spamcake#com
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Ron Kittle wrote:
Emacs is still an amazing piece of work.  What
other editor will solve the Towers of Hanoi, animating the disks using ascii
drawings?

http://www.vim.org

Cheers,
- Sproat

--
              _   __
  .,,        ( `-'  \  Music soothed the savage beast, but only 'cause
C:::]|||||||||() | |   I smashed in its skull with my six-string.
  `'`        (_.-.__/  Jeremy H. Sproat  jsproat@geocities.com



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  Re: Email Editors
 
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:35:53 GMT, Sproaticus <jsproat@geocities.com> wrote: <snipped everything> Just commenting on the name. Sproaticus? Hope there isn't anything Freudian in that. :-) -- Terry K -- -- Terry K -- (26 years ago, 7-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: Email Editors
 
(...) Emacs is really just a lisp interpreter masquerading as an editor. :-) When I used to use unix with only a 24x80 ascii terminal, emacs was irreplaceable. With the advent of windowed interfaces, it doesn't have quite as big an advantage. Emacs (...) (26 years ago, 6-Oct-98, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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