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Date: | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:06:16 +0300 (IDT) |
From: | Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> |
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To: | Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com> |
cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
Subject: | Re: newbie wants to get ramped up w/a windows text editor |
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote: > The Emacs vi emulators are "checklist features". I don't know one > single sane programmer who's using the VIP or the VIPER modes. The maintainer of VIPER obviously does use it. > The sole > purpose of their inclusion in Emacs seems to be i) to claim that Emacs > has vi emulators, and ii) to amuse the authors of the packages. I don't think this is true. Otherwise, the emulations wouldn't be maintained so actively as they are.
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