>No commercial Unix system ships with Emacs.
which is a shame
>All commercial Unix systems ship with vi.
hate using vi, and lately I have been having bastard trouples with it with
all kinds of telnet apps .. moving cursor causes 'B's to apear instead of
moving.
>This is why I require everyone who does admin work for me to be
>proficient in vi (and its alter-ego, ex, for those times when a
>full-screen editor can't be used).
Can use vi, hate it but I can use it. I personally consider it one of the
worst.
>Furthermore, I recommend against Emacs because (a) it's a resource hog
>(b) it is THE canonical example of creeping featurism and (c) I have
>observed, over more than a decade, that people who live inside Emacs
>tend to never learn the ways to accomplish the same tasks using native
>Unix functionality and as a consequence, are hamstrung when they're
>forced into a situation where Emacs isn't available.
true probably, have never been able to do a search replace in vi(le) yet in
emacs I fly through everything...
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