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In article <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ) writes:
> Question....what on earth for?   There's so many other more desirable
> low cost editors for ms-dos out there already.  PC-Write, XTREE-PRO, etc. are
> among a few.  Or are there some hidden features of vi I haven't been able to
> find yet.  I find vi a pain to use every time I have to move to another line,
> delete, copy, etc.  It can be done but the other programs I use make it so
> much easier.
>
>   Chuck Reichert   KD9JQ
>

If you move around on many different systems it is very useful to have a common
editor. VI is an editor that is available on many platforms (Unix, MSDOS, VMS).
Besides it got regular expressions, which means powerful search and replace
operations. This is something few if any of the MSDOS editors can do. Besides
VI supports most of what I want an editor to do. The few things that I would
want in addition is not something I would want to give up VI for (or the
functionality of VI).

In other words; VI is old, but is still a useful tool. VI enables me to be up
to speed while others are trying to remember which key sequence does what in
emacs. After all didn't Berkeley bring out ined after VI? Why did VI become
standard while ined seems to have died?


Greetings from Norway,

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