[COFF] editor wars

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On 2025-07-20 11:43, Paul Winalski wrote (in part):
> I remember one amusing (to me) incident in the vi vs. emacs flame wars.  
> Jerry Pournelle, the science fiction author, was one of the early 
> adopters of the home PC.  He wrote a column on PCs for Byte magazine and 
> set himself up as a computer pundit.  We professional software 
> engineers, who worked on "real" computers, not those feeble PC toys, 
> held him in polite contempt.

I recall one of his "Chaos Manor" columns about a UNIX-PC sent to him by 
ATT.  The first thing inside the box was a very thick licensing 
agreement that he declined to sign.

I use both vi and emacs.  One day, I was modifying my .emacs file with 
vi -- I do not remember why.  A colleague, walking by, asked what I was 
doing.  When I told him, he fixed me with a cold stare, said 
"Scurrilous", and walked away.

S.