Posted by MassiveProng on 02/06/07 04:55

On Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:26:52 -0500, Dick Sidbury
<DrJamesSidbury@hotmail.com> Gave us:

>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.


Get the source, and make a MAC port, crybaby! :-]

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