re: #160 William Lewis

Heh. I remember being a young sysadm on XENIX, Sun & DG systems and kicking the hornet’s nest by posting that the only use of for vi was to edit the emacs (17? 18?) makefile … ;)

Ah, the text editor wars of the 80s and 90s: the vi’ers vs the emacs. It was a brutal time then, many were wounded, many died. One quickly learned that the path to safety and survival was to never offer up your opinion for, whichever side you landed on, the other side was ready and able to tear you apart. It was best, when asked, to just dumbly smile and mumble to yourself until the asker went away to find fresh meat.