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bvaughan@sheps.Princeton.EDU (Barbara Vaughan) writes:
|> Actually, in the example above, I would probably use sed to insert the
|> blanks.  I also use awk for some of the tasks I used to use an editor
|> for (when I was a DOS person). Of all the editors I've used in my life, vi
|> is neither the best nor the worst.

Ahhh...but which editor do you prefer to use for your day-to-day editing???
I also find vi neither the best or worst BY ITSELF, but it's all those other
Unix and C programs which can filter the text that make vi so wonderfully
adaptable.  At work, I do most editing with vi on a Unix workstation here,
but also use SPF Edit on our MVS system daily also.  At home, I use
WordPerfect on my PC.  But if I had to be restricted to only 1 editor for all
three systems, I'd pick vi because it is so adaptable, comes on every Unix
box, and I prefer Unix/X-windows over VMS, MVS, MS Windows, Macs, OS/2...
Learning a portable editor is also advantageous these days (instead of
growing accustomed to using vile, stevie, joe, moe, larry, and curly ;^) )
with so many companies in the midst of reorganization-mania, if you know what
I mean.  I do miss the column-limited operations offered by Xedit and SPF
Edit even though I can filter my text through C programs to mimic the
exclude, overlay, and removing and filling columns with spaces or characters
in vi.  Gee..this is starting to sound like the "Why I like vi" thread again.

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