Re: Scottish, uhm... uuh... what should we call this?

While pretending to be roadkill on the InfoBahn, <usenet_spam_trap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scrawled:
On Tue, 06 May 2008 04:47:27 GMT, Stephen Edwards <tg416@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It: You shouldn't use NotePad. You should use Vim.

You missed your chance. A more entertaining answer would be "yeah, vim's
pretty good, but for *real* power in editing, real unix users use emacs."
Get him started trying to figure out why, then he can go off to fight
the most recent versions of Editor Wars, leaving you to use whatever
tools you want to use to get the job done.

Actually, since vi is built on top of ed, he should challenge
the user to a matchih with ed.

-Tai
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