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geoff@collyer.net wrote:

>So then rewriting perl in emacs lisp would make vi available
>everywhere.
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>
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Actually, I've been reminded since that the latest versions
of vim have perl built in. Clearly, therefore, a perl implementation
of vim would actually be smaller.