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CNET News: Brace Yourself: Spell Checking in vi?

By Stephen Shankland

“Disclaimer: I imprinted on the vi editor on a Unix system in
1990 and never could bring myself to figure out Emacs.

“But I am not alone in my preferences. The text editor ships in
one form or another with every Unix, Linux or BSD system out there,
and sysadmins can count on it even when X servers give up the
ghost, network connections are too pokey or fancier editors aren’t
installed…”

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