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Date:Mon Sep 7 15:43:04 1993 
Subject:Re: How to end silly editor wars 
From:Ceri Hopkins 
Volume-ID:930907.02 

>>>>> On Mon, 6 Sep 1993 07:51:24 GMT, A.Sloman@uk.ac.bham.cs ("A.Sloman")  said:

[stuff about futility of editor flame wars deleted]

Aaron> But arguing about the pros and cons of particular editors is utterly
Aaron> pointless. There will NEVER be agreement in taste on these matters, so
Aaron> users should have a choice.

Agreed. I thought the bit about users not wanting sequences like "ESC
C-q p 3" a bit below the belt -- especially when it can be bound to a
function key. Perhaps I'll retort with a jibe about "ENTER
vedveryhardtoremembercommand" ;-)

[and much later]

Aaron> Anyhow one thing is very clear: nobody is going to convert the world to
Aaron> using VED or to using Emacs. Therefore (as Alan Montgomery once said to
Aaron> me around 1985) it is essential for Poplog to be able support multiple
Aaron> editors even if not all of them give the full benefits of VED or Emacs.

Aaron> But since emulating all of them is out of the question, I believe the
Aaron> only solution is to provide the two sorts of interfaces described above.

Aaron> Designing them well will be much harder than implementing them!

If there's a job in it, I'm interested.

Ceri
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Ceri Hopkins                                    
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