From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: What's a good stand-alone editor?
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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:34:52 GMT
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Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com> wrote:
> Damian Yerrick wrote:
> >
> > Notepad renames files to *.txt
> > Edit.com replaces tabs with spaces.
> > Many other DOS editors use all of CPU time, which
> > severely cuts into the distributed.net client's keyrate.
> > http://www.distributed.net/
> >
> > Which editor should I use?
>
> If you are not going to use Emacs,
> If you are not going to use vi (VIM),
> If you are not going to use even RHIDE,
> At least do yourself a favor, and use PFE32,
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned MS Write,
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned MS Notepad,
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned Boxer (spawn your compile from it),
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned Brief,
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned PC-Edit (from the PC Megazine Mega Pack),
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I tried and abandoned DOS Edit,
> Which is the editor I learned,
> After I was forced to use a PC.
> Before which I used UNIX,
> Where I learned vi and Emacs.
>
> Guess which learning effort payed off?

Nice poem.

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Damian Yerrick
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