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Article #3270Re: vi on ms-dos
From: Charlie Lear
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1991 11:01
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 1991 11:01
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In article <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes: >I run on 4 or 5 different operating systems. VI is on all of them >(including VMS as of today). I use VI on all of them so I only have to >remember one editor. I use vi on here because I don't have time to learn YABTE (Yet Another Bloody Text Editor, in my case emacs). Its taken me two years to become confident in using vi, and I'm not about to trash that effort lightly... On Dos systems, I use Q-Edit. Its brilliant. I'll even get my shareware registration cheque sent off one day, I promise. Hint: it is repugnant, but in your own best interests to learn edlin. You never know when you will be confronted with a box containing a nice new PC and nothing on it apart from the standard DOS utils. Beats having to retype an entire config.sys or autoexec by using COPY CON: when you are debugging and setting the system up... -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charlie "The Bear" Lear | clear@cavebbs.gen.nz | Kawasaki Z750GT DoD#0221 The Cave MegaBBS +64 4 642269 V22b | PO Box 2009, Wellington, New Zealand --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!comp.vuw.ac.nz!cavebbs!clear From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos Message-ID: <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> Date: 1 Jun 91 11:01:17 GMT References: <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ Lines: 23