Posted by Dick Sidbury on 02/06/07 02:26

In article <eq8ipm$acg$1@driftwood.ccs.carleton.ca>,
colinm@rideau.carleton.ca (Colin McFadyen) wrote:

> 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 ;-)

Well I prefer joe but since it's not available on my mac, I suffer
through with pico (or whatever comes up when I type pico.)

dick
-- for those of you who don't remember joe is basically wordstar.

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