-----Original Message----- From: social-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:social-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Adam Bower Sent: 14 October 2001 21:28 To: MJ Ray Cc: Ashley; social@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: Re: [alug social] FW: (forw) Of Linux bigots
On 14 Oct 2001, MJ Ray wrote:
Ashley ash@blueskyresearch.net writes:
I'm guessing you're an Emacs user. <ashley starts to zip up
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I'm far more of a vi-hater than an Emacs user, I think. The one reason to learn vi is that it is on every system. How the hell they got it into the standard is beyond me. That anyone uses it when there's a choice is incredible.
Oh well looks like Mark is going to be found dead in the next couple of weeks where the circumstances surrounding his death will be suspicious. Of course the enquiry into this will prove inconclusive, but there will be fears raised that a group of cultists who are in some way related to the emacs hating group "The Vi lovers" may have put pressure onto both the police and others who were involved in the investigation of this mysterious case to return an inconclusive verdict.
Probably the 'Cryptic Keystroke Fundamentalists' who are waging a holy war on anything 'Stallman' related. :-) The EMACS (Even More Awkward Cryptic and Silly) faction of the Anti-Vi Army have also stated in their manifesto that anybody using a copy of Vi or its clones are fair game for editorist attacks including the removal of colon keys and the installation of edlin as a replacement. :-))))
As an aside I'm totally impartial in this conflict coz I can't understand either of the buggers so I'll stick with Pico or Kwrite for now.
Cheers, BJ