Re: tlug: humor = vi VS emacs

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Jim Schweizer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> It's a quiet Sunday night so I thought I'd pass this along:
> 
> Felix S. Gallo <fsg@example.com> wrote this account of a
> paintball match at which was decided the eternal question of
> which Unix text editor is objectively superior.
> 
>   > vi trounced emacs, 3-1, in a four-game paintball match.
>   > Apparently the emacs users were confused by the simple
>   > nature of their paintball equipment, or were stricken by
>   > carpal tunnel syndrome... Rumors that emacs really lost
>   > because their guns took 5 minutes to load, weighed 500 lbs,
>   > included an undecipherable and outmoded built-in scripting
>   > language, and had 19 different modifier keys next to the
>   > trigger were deemed baseless. Commented one grinning vi user,
>   > ":1,$s/emacs/lunchmeat/g, baby!"
> 
> :-)
> 
> Apologies to Steve T ;-)
> 

Objectively, emacs isn't really just a text editor.  Now, if they'd
invited pico to the paintball match... THEN vi would have gotten its
what-for :)


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