From: Thierry Bezecourt <thbz@thbz.cx>
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs
Subject: Re: your article "Why Does My File Have Funny Characters In It?"
Date: 26 Jul 2000 03:24:15 +0200
Organization: Rubis Ltd
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Message-ID: <m13dkxznsw.fsf@thbz.cx>
References: <y26wvi9ex61.fsf@chaos.cs.huji.ac.il>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.6
Matan Ninio <emacs@cs.ng.ninio.org> writes:
> 2. stop using that prehistoric vi, and move up to emacs.
(...)
> VI VI VI - The Roman Number of The Beast
VI is a roman number.
ED is a 2-note tune.
red is a color.
emacs is an editor.
You cannot edit a file with a roman number. You cannot edit a file
with a tune. You cannot edit a file with a color. Therefore, if you
want to edit a file, use emacs.
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Thierry Bezecourt