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Old 05-26-2014, 01:32 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
vi and emacs, both of which predate wordstar by several years, are still in use by many people.
And I'm one of them. I use Vim every day in my job coding on software which was first released in the 80s - so I know all about using software with a long lineage.

Anyway the point is not that vi & emacs pre-date Wordstar it's that they have outlived it.

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