From: "N. Thomas" <nthomas@cise.ufl.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [comp.editors] vi? emacs? debate finally settled, answer is VI!
Date: 30 May 1998 09:27:00 -0700

Subject: vi? emacs? debate finally settled, answer is VI! 
From: patrickq@autobahn.mb.ca (Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.editors, comp.emacs

> Emacs vs. vi -- LinuxExpo Paintball 
>Contributed by Hemos on Friday May
>29, @04:26
>from the cumulation-of-jihad dept.
>
>Peter Jones writes "The Editer Wars at LinuxExpo, 
>
>vi versus Emacs paintball,
>was a huge success. Emacs consistantly lost, until the
>paintball management told made them surround the vi camp
>before starting the 4th game, out of 4. vi won the other
>three. The most difficult part of it was explaining to the
>paintball people what vi and Emacs were. One of the
>supervisors asked "What is an Emac, anyway?" "

My guess? -- the emacs camp had too much trouble hitting
<META> <CTL><SHIFT><TRIGGER>  :-)