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Article #3279Re: vi on ms-dos
From: Glenn M. Mason
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 14:33
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 1991 14:33
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In article <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>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...
2 years? Are you serious?? Do you have a learning disability? If it took you
that long to become comfortable using vi, you probably should *not* attempt
to try anything better. I learned vi, just to be able to edit on the fly on
machines not equipped with an emacs-like editor of some sort ... I think I
studied the command set for about an hour or so, and I have been able to do
just about anything that you can possibly do with vi (which ain't much!-).
2 years???
;^)
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