[Gllug] vi vs emacs (repeat)

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On Wed, 09 Mar 2005, John Hearns prattled cheerily:
> Don't give me bloated, memory hungry emacs.

vim with all the toppings is just as bad these days, except if you're
examining disk consumption.

> In fact, when I was merely a padewan, I saw a real Unix guru save a
> borked Sun system using ed. Badly enough borked not to have vi.
> So the editor you should learn to use is ed.

I must admit I use sed in that situation, oh, and busybox of course
for those nasty moments when you break the dynamic linker.

-- 
> ...Hires Root Beer...
What we need these days is a stable, fast, anti-aliased root beer
with dynamic shading. Not that you can let just anybody have root.
 --- John M. Ford
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