I was quite fortunate to have an extraordinarily good computer services department where I worked right out of college. They had emacs on the Suns and the Vaxen. I decided learning one editor beat learning two so emacs it was. Nope, wasn't as "good" as the VAX editor on the VAX but was a lot better than the VAX editor on a Sun.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
Same thing here - slowaris early in my unix-y years only had vi prior to finding out about sunfreeware.com, so i just got used to it.  Finding vim made it that much more likeable to prefer it to today.  To this day I'll find myself when using a windoze system notepad or gedit on linux still compulsory hitting :wq! when done, and having to think for a sec why it didn't do anything.  Opps...

-mb



On 08/10/2012 07:46 PM, Matt Graham wrote:
From: Patricia Wilson<wilson.pr.gm@gmail.com>
I was exposed to vi several years ago.  It made me ever so thankful for the
nice people who developed emacs.

Years and years ago, the Solaris boxen at college had vi, but not emacs.  pico
didn't cut it for anything complicated.

This left me no choice but to become a vi king.

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