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Re: Info sucks?



> >but remember vi was a big progress in his time to ed.
> 
> who has used ed in dire time when all else was broken ?

I have.  Without documentation.  I am -very- glad I learned vi as much 
as I did.  Xenix System III, and a corrupted /etc/passwd I needed to 
fix.  No vi, no emacs, no ex, just ed.

But while vi was a big progress over ed, so was emacs over teco, and 
earlier, as well.



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     Buddha Buck                      bmbuck@acsu.buffalo.edu
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