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I was a TECO user on RSX-11M, then switched to FINE (Fine Is Not EMACS :-)) on Top 10 & 20. When I started at Sun I started using vi but on the Amiga I continued to use MicroEMACS which felt a bit like FINE[1]. After Sun I pretty much stuck to vi because it was so much faster over a remote X11 connection than EMACS was.

Also used PFE32 for a while on the Amiga, sad that the source for that never made it out.

[1] I still have Craig Finseth's thesis "A Cookbook for an Emacs" which talks about designing FINE.



>Also used PFE32 for a while on the Amiga, sad that the source for that never made it out.

I also used PFE32 (on Windows), and for those who may not know, the acronym stood for Programmers File Editor, IIRC :), and the 32-bit version, probably. It was a nice lightweight text editor. One feature it had, that not many other editors might have had at the time, was the ability to open fairly large text files (for that time, at least).




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