How do you tell a wizard?

Gregory G. Woodbury ggw at wolves.uucp
Sat Oct 28 08:06:32 AEST 1989


In article <21251 at adm.BRL.MIL> (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC)) writes:
>> From article <955 at umb.umb.edu>, by campbell at umb.umb.edu (Jim Campbell):
>>> ie:  NOVICE: Calls vi vye
>
>> I have *never* heard *anyone* call "vi" vee-eye.  Including wizards.
>
>  Do wizards even use vi?  I thought they used emacs :-).

	Of course some wizards use vi!  Those whom eschew the baroque
verbosity of the wild variants of the one true UNIX appreciate the clean
and simple style of vi (despite its origins ;-)  Of course, for clean and
simple, not much can beat TECO ;-) ;-)
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