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In <DCM2z5.9Ex@nntpa.cb.att.com> gupta@mrspock.mt.att.com (Arun Gupta) writes:

>In article <danpop.807226875@rscernix>, Dan Pop <Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch> wrote:
>>
>>I did all this switching on the Unix side.  Sorry to disappoint you,
>>but I never read any documentation for elm and pine.  They're menu driven,
>>you know?  My Unix tutorial book has a chapter about vi which contains
>>everything I needed to know about it and emacs is menu driven.  An 
>
>One of the following must be true :
>	1. You need very little from vi.

Don't think so.  I'm using it right now, since it's my preferred editor
for non-programming work.

>	2. You had a very good UNIX tutorial book

This is the true one.

>	3. You are unaware of about a million features of vi.

I am aware of vi's features, even of those I don't know how to use without
opening a book, because I need them once or twice a year.
>
>>application doesn't need a GUI in order to be easy to use.  This explains
>>why the ASCII terminals haven't been killed yet by the PC's, Mac's,
>>workstations and X terminals.  BTW, their worst "enemy" here is the
>>X terminal.
>
>IMO, ASCII terminals haven't been killed yet at least in part, because they
>consume the least bandwidth of the various display solutions, and bandwidth
>is still very expensive.

Nope.  They survive because they're adequate for their jobs.  $0 
administration overhead, low maintenance costs, they don't become
obsolete in a couple of years.  These are all major advantages for those
who don't need more capabilities than a terminal can provide.

>I agree with you that an application doesn't need a GUI in order to be
>easy to use.  What it needs is consistency with the other suite of applications
>that the user is likely to use and be familiar with.

Nowadays, terminals are typically used for running a single application
(on many of them you can see this in the burnt phosphor).  Few people are
still using them for software development, except those working on IBM
mainframes.

Dan
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