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Subject: Re: Cygwin survey: Next vim version with perl support?
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 09:17:16 +1000
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> Because the "cat/sed" combination is much harder to use :)
>
> On second thought, make that a "visual editor"...

Amusingly - nano with every available feature turned on,  is only 5% larger
than cat + sed.
It is 45% larger then ed though.
I wont bother comparing it to vim or emacs...

(Okay so i ignored library dependcies in the above comparisons - I dont
think i'm cheating Too much)

Gareth - bias revealed, returns to the shadows.

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