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Article #15Re: VI??? GROSS!
From: Felix S. Gallo
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:45
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:45
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9118543@sunvax.sun.ac.za writes: >Is there no better editor for UNIX than VI? >I mean... what happened to the good old full screen ones? >Cheers >Christ psst. vi is full screen; also, the relative 'goodness' of an editor depends on what you're trying to do. For instance, if you're trying to have a completely integrated one-program environment that reads news and everything, check out gnuemacs. If you can't stand these fancy newfangled "tools", use cat. If you live modally, vi is for you. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Felix Sebastian Gallo rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.editors Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!cs.utexas.edu!milano!cactus.org!wixer!rhodesia From: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS! Message-ID: <1992Oct28.214551.21668@wixer.cactus.org> Followup-To: comp.editors Sender: rhodesia@wixer.cactus.org (Felix S. Gallo) Organization: uh huh References: <1992Oct28.162607.5613@sunvax.sun.ac.za> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 92 21:45:51 GMT Lines: 16