nvi on
Emacs. Emacs strikes back, sending
viper out to annihilate vile, while
repelling the continued attacks from nvi without sweat,
until XEmacs and jed join forces in another
attack on Emacs. Emacs is crushed, but
XEmacs is seriously wounded in the battle, and unable to
defend itself when Crisp, XCoral, and
nedit all attacks at the same time. Meanwhile,
jed, although less severely harmed from the battle, find
itself facing a formidable opposition in the form of
µEmacs, mg, joe,
freemacs, and notGNU, who all join the
battle now. nvi, now with perl as an extension language,
tries to claim the now vacant title as The Mother of All
Editors, but is immediately attacked by vim,
elvis, sam, and wily.
The battle continues, drawing in more and more editors, even obscure
presumed dead editors like xedit, teco, and
tpu/edt, until finally a single survivor emerges,
pico, which has meanwhile been bought by Bill Gates,
renamed to MS Edit, and stripped for all the advanced
features that just confused the users.
So the answer, my friend, is to learn pico now and get
rich on consulting once MS Edit becomes the accepted
industry standard.
Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk>