vi vs Emacs debate live at GTALUG September 11 !!!

[Jamon Camisso]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:51:15PM -0400, Robert Brockway wrote:
>> For the September meeting I'd like to run a debate (sort of).
>>
>> The title of the debate is "Emacs is superior to vi".  This will be a 
>> friendly and well natured debate on the relative merits of our favourite 
>> two editors.
> 
> But of course it is.  Now a real debate would be "Emacs is superior to
> vim" which would be very hard to prove. :)  Plain vi drives vim users
> nuts too.

I was surprised to find vi absent from the Debian Etch disk I was using 
yesterday. No ed either. I've made good use of netinstall disks in the 
past with things like debootstrap etc., but hadn't noticed the lack of 
any editor on the disk.

Jamon
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