Date:	Thu, 19 Aug 1999 12:06:16 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject:	Re: newbie wants to get ramped up w/a windows text editor
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On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Weiqi Gao wrote:

> The Emacs vi emulators are "checklist features".  I don't know one
> single sane programmer who's using the VIP or the VIPER modes.

The maintainer of VIPER obviously does use it.

> The sole
> purpose of their inclusion in Emacs seems to be i) to claim that Emacs
> has vi emulators, and ii) to amuse the authors of the packages.

I don't think this is true.  Otherwise, the emulations wouldn't be 
maintained so actively as they are.

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