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On Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Thomas Paulsen wrote:

>> What's funny is that in doing the work to get 'se' running on Georgia
>> Tech's Vax, I had to learn vi.  By the time I was done, vi had become
>> my main editor and had burned itself into my finger's ROMs.
> I do ed/se occasionally for simple tasks, vim frequently , because it 
> loads fast, and emacs for all bigger projects, beside liteide for 
> golang.

For what it's worth, I use nano. (Yeah, I know, not very unixy.)

I think the first fullscreen text editor I used was FrEdWriter (by Paul 
Lutus and Al Rogers) for the Apple ][.  After that it was IBM's E.  I 
haven't really used vi *or* emacs much.

-uso.