Posted by Colin McFadyen on 02/06/07 00:40

In <12sfhbod02bjlf9@corp.supernews.com> Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> writes:

>In alt.video.dvd Bill Vermillion <bv@wjv.com> wrote:

>> And I STILL post using a vi text editor :-) And 80x24 text with
>> trn. [and I run my own new server on THIS machine - and I'm the
>> only user - but it means everything is always there - instantly.
>> I'm just an old fart who dislikes having to take my hands off the
>> keys to play with a rodent. I guess I'm an anachronism.

>You're not the only one. I still use vi with tin, though I admit to moving
>to pine for email (much nicer than plain old 'mail').

I use nn with emacs, but with an 80x34 window. I find it *much* faster
to browse newsgroups using a text newsreader.

Now there's a flame war that many young 'uns have never heard of...
vi vs. emacs ;-)

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