Tab wars revisited (was Re: Python indentation)

[Jacek Generowicz]

Steve Lamb <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> writes:

> What Istvan is using is better known, to me at least, as "the vi
> argument".  IE, it was best for people to learn vi over another
> editor because one could be stuck with nothing but vi to do editing
> with since all unixes came with vi stock.  Whatever would someone do
> if they were incapable of using their preferred editor and stuck
> *only* with vi!?

Nonononononoooooo! You've got it all horribly wrong: _ed_ is the
standard text editor.

http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html