From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: newbie wants to get ramped up w/a windows text editor
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 07:32:34 -0500
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Martin Stromberg wrote:
> 
> Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
> 
> : On Fri, 13 Aug 1999 sam AT greenaumARSE!ARSE!ARSE!.demon.co.uk wrote:
> 
> : > If you want to write C, there's nothing more powerful than Vi. Except
> : > Emacs, possibly. If RHIDE did Vi key-commands that might be a
> : > different story.
> :
> : Emacs does have a Vi emulator (actually, it has two different Vi
> : emulators).
> 
> Hmmm... Does vi have an emacs emulator?

No.  But vi does have an ed emulator.

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 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.

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