[ale] Richard Stallman at the University of Georgia

[Charles Shapiro]

Emacs FTW.  Any editor that lacks a Conway Life simulator ( M-x Life), an
adventure game (M-x dunnet ) and no less than THREE Towers of Hanoi
simulators ( M-x hanoi, M-x hanoi-unix, M-x hanoi-unix-64 ) is clearly
deficient!

-- CHS



On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 4:43 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah. Rhel and fedora just have symlinks from vi to vim. They dumped old
> vi years ago. Rhel 3 had vi with optional vim.
> On Oct 15, 2014 3:21 PM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  On 10/15/2014 02:22 PM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>
>>  Oops, sorry, I meant a libre version of vi, such as vim.
>>
>>  -- CHS
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/15/2014 11:51 AM, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Also featured: an appearance by Saint IGNUcius (
>>> > https://stallman.org/saint.html ) to general hilarity.  The Saint
>>> > officially declared that vi is Not Sinful as long as you are using a
>>> > libre version (e.g. Vim).  During the Q/A period one of our own (
>>> > Avery!) asked about Emacs Evil, but the Saint seemed unfamiliar with
>>> > that vi emulator which runs on emacs.
>>> help me out here... libre version , Vim??
>>> my current testing version of fedora shows:
>>> vim-X11.x86_64                           2:7.4.475-2.fc21
>>> updates-testing
>>>
>>> is that good or bad??
>>>
>>> sorry I missed it! ( the talk, that is..)
>>>
>>>
>>   looking at my installed packages, it looks like VIM 7.4 ( per the
>> HELP)..
>>
>> weird, typing:
>> vim fred- :help shows for Vim version 7.4
>> vi fred- :help shows Vim version 7.1
>>
>> I don't show a "vi" package..
>>
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>>
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