Fun_People Archive
8 Apr
Text editor survey (usenet)

Date: Mon, 8 Apr 96 13:39:41 -0700
From: Peter Langston <psl>
To: Fun_People
Subject: Text editor survey (usenet)

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>Subject: What text editor do you use ?
>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,...
>
>Hi
>
>I'm doing a survey of which text editor people use.
>Do you use VI, EMACS, JOE, OTHER ( please name ) ?
>Why do you prefer it over the other editors ?
>Did you try other editors before you settled for this one ?
>Which ones did you try ?
>					-- Philip
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>Subject: What text editor do you use ?
>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,...
>
>Hi
>
>I'm doing a survey of which text editor people use.
>Do you use VI, EMACS, JOE, OTHER ( please name ) ?
>Why do you prefer it over the other editors ?
>Did you try other editors before you settled for this one ?
>Which ones did you try ?
>					-- Philip
______________________________________________________________
>Subject: What text editor do you use ?
>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,...
>
>Hi
>
>I'm doing a survey of which text editor people use.
>Do you use VI, EMACS, JOE, OTHER ( please name ) ?
>Why do you prefer it over the other editors ?
>Did you try other editors before you settled for this one ?
>Which ones did you try ?
>					-- Philip
______________________________________________________________
Subject: Re: What text editor do you use ?
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,alt.religion.emacs,...
From: andrewc@ugcs.caltech.edu (Andrew Ryan Chang)

	Hi Philip!

	Here at Caltech, we all (all) use MS-Word.  Although we have
tried others, we find that coding in a word-processor allows for the
nicest formatting possible.

	Features include arbitrary font choices and styles.  The "Tip of
the Day" is a nice feature that makes the atmosphere here livable.  Ask
anyone what the best part of Caltech is, they'll tell you that the
knowledge that everyone you see has read a Tip of the Day recently
brightens us all up.

	That makes around 800 of us here.

	My friends at the University of British Columbia all swear by
something called "cat > file", claiming that it was portable and did not
have the featuritis of Word.  I think there are 30,000 students there.

	Then there's my friends at Simon Fraser University (yup, I come
from Vancouver, BC).  They use either WordPerfect or call up the modem
pool and whistle into the line directly.

	Hope this helps!

CLUE 1: Usenet is not for your homework.
CLUE 2: Don't post three times about the same thing.
CLUE 3: alt.religion.emacs readers often prefer a certain text editor.
	Which one it is is left as an exercise for the reader.  Try not to
	strain yourself on this one, Phil.
--
							Andrew
--

© 1996 Peter Langston