I tried it out a few times, but the requirement to learn so many commands with multiple meta keys was too much bother. The old joke, that Emacs is “a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor” 1, was both a draw to and a caution against it’s use. vi was omnipresent and could be learned to a passable level in a short amount of time. As a university student and a GIS Analyst using various versions of Unix, I was handed vi and taught to use it. Over the years I have followed the holy war between vi and Emacs with some interest.
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