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Re: VI??? GROSS!

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From: Soh Kam Hung
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:14
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buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) writes:

>Beware the ignorance of the Lambs :-)

Baa baa to you, Ove!  What does the ``ignorance of the lambs'' mean?
I don't know whether to be amused or mortified.  P-)

>Many of these tutorials are EXSTREMLY good. Do not make asumptions 
>about something that you may or may not know 100 %.

Ick!  I haven't been keeping up with the comp.editors index of vi
related files.  After having a look, I found more tutorials on vi,
including a course for teaching it!

>Those with a PC background should use JOE, pico or something else
>untill they hit the ceiling and ask: "Why can't I...", then you show
>them the strength of VI.

I usually start by showing those users utilities such as tr, sed or
awk, since they tend to encounter batch processing problems.  Then, I
mention vi or emacs and give them some tutorial documents.

Regards,

Soh Kam Hung, Network Management Research,     | h.soh@trl.oz.au  
TRL, POB 249 Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia | +61 3 253 6638
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