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Article #123Re: Why I love VI
From: Ian Nelson
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 22:03
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1992 22:03
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mschee@bcarh600.bnr.ca (Michael SamChee) writes:
>These two advantages alone is sufficient reason for *me* to
>favour vi as an editor. Needless to say, vi is very powerful
>(admittedly, not as powerful as EMACs).
>However, I must admit that when I first started learning vi,
>I was pissed off about the editor because I found the commands
>too cryptic. I therefore understand how you beginners feel.
>But after using vi for 1 school term, I was hooked to the editor
>because of its speed and power.
I know how to use VI pretty well and I still think it sucks. Why can't they
port a good editor like Qedit or MultiEdit to UNIX? I admit that vi is powerful
and it is pretty quick, but behind Qedit (with menus and arrow keys) I can
produce stuff much faster, when I use the hotkeys, I go even faster.
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!destroyer!ncar!csn!bvsd!ian From: ian@bvsd.co.edu (Ian Nelson) Subject: Re: Why I love VI Message-ID: <1992Aug6.220308.10458@bvsd.co.edu> Keywords: vi, speed, power Organization: Boulder Valley School District References: <1992Aug6.150744.28135@bnr.ca> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1992 22:03:08 GMT Lines: 21