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In article <63189@linus.UUCP> rachamp@mbunix (Champeaux) writes:
>In article <439@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes:
[ comments about 'vi becoming second nature' deleted]
>>
>>Doug Merritt		{pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug
>
>I agree that VI isn't all that bad once you get used to it.  I've been forced
>to use it at work for the past couple of months, but I'm still a novice user.
>The thing that really annoys me is that it's beginning to become second nature.
>When I go home and use UEdit, I end up inserting h's,j's,k's, and l's all over
>the place.  I've gotten into the habit of pressing ESC every time I want to 
>move the cursor, and I get confused when I try to exit the file with :x.  Two
>more weeks and I get to become a one editor person again.
                                  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Rich Champeaux  (rachamp@mbunix.mitre.org)


This is precisely why I switched to MicroEMACS 3.10. I have occasion to use
4 different operating systems on a regular basis (BSD, VMS (Uggh!),
MS-DOS(GAAK!), and AmigaDOS), and I have MicroEMACS on all of them, and
they all work the same way. I used vi for much the same reason for a long
time (until I started having to grovel around in VMS), though I was never
completely satisfied with the minor differences between the clones. I was
also envious of the people with editors which could handle multiple windows
on screen at once. MicroEMACS was a good solution, but it wasn't until
version 3.10 that I was happy enough with it to switch to it completely.

Regards,
Phil
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