@pesnta.UUCP (10/15/83)
About a month ago, I asked people with more than a year of experience in both
emacs and vi to let me know which they preferred. I expected to get a few
responses that presented reasons why their favorite editor was better than the
other. Instead, I received 49 responses, most of which contained unbiased
comparisons of the two editors. The votes came in, as follows:
16 preferred emacs over vi.
9 preferred vi over emacs.
24 suggeted that it didn't matter or that they used both.
In general, the comments of the people that thought the editors equal made
the most sense to me. There were holes in a few of the arguments that favored
one over the other. That is, a few people suggested that an editor lacked
some function that I have used or read about in the documentation for that
editor.
I would like to thank all of the people that responded to my request. Sorry
that I was late in returning the results, but there was more to read than I
expected and I had less time to do it.
Curt Stephens @pesnta.UUCP (10/15/83)
#R:tekecs:-221100:hp-pcd:5000016:000:310 hp-pcd!bill Oct 3 11:29:00 1983 For whoever may be interested, I've posted a list of the HP264x ASCII loader commands, together with a downloadable copy of "Hacman", in net.sources. (No, I don't take responsibility for the code, and no, I don't have a complete list of the terminal's internal routine entry points.) bill frolik hp-pcd!bill