[geeks] vi vs. emacs - rational discussion

[Sandwich Maker]

"From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>
"
"I learned emacs first because I came across a windows port when I was
"trying to find a free text editor that would allow me to open 65meg text
"files. 

i was very surprised to discover, about '89, that stock sVr3 vi still
had a 256k file size limit.  and they only had to set a flag in the
makefile to fix it.
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