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From: zneg.ngxvaf@ovtsbbg.pbz (Martin Atkins)
Subject: Re: Monospaced fonts, Text editors and (NEW!) ascii utils!
Date: 1998/03/31
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.----- On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 22:27:59 -0500, "Andrew C. Dingman" posted:
|Martin Atkins wrote:
|
|> Unix:      vi
|>            pico
|>            emacs
|>            jed
|>            joe
|>            ed
|>
|
|<snip>
|
|> Linux:     joe
|>
|
|I'm running Linux, and I have all those editors you listed under Un*x and
|more right at my fingertips.
|I'm not really sure that you even need to include a separate section for
|Linux if you are already
|such a wise and enlightened person that you have a section for Un*x ;-) (Unix
|is a proprietary name, not
|everyone who makes a flavor pays for permission to use the name) I think you
|did hit all the really
|most important (IMHO, no editor holy wars here, please) ones, though. Good
|job. Seeing Un*x on the list
|made me happy.
|
|-Andrew
|
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If it wasn`t for the contributions of the others on the list at the foot of
my file, I wouldn`t have a Un*x section <g>.
I only know EMACS until the others were added by others... :)
Is it a good idea to change Unix to Un*x?


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