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Article #7696Re: VI features, Editors, etc...
From: Guido van Rossum
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 21:25
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1986 21:25
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Matt Dillon: >Mouse-based 'user friendly' editors are all an well, but completely useless >once you get experienced. At the outset, the 'user friendly' mouse-based >editor is easier to learn, but you get to a point where you simply cannot >go any further (you know everything there is to know, you are typing/ >moving the mouse as fast as you can), and when you get to this point, the >VI user has the advantage because HIS limits are quite a bit higher than >yours, and thus he can get things done faster. > >Not only that, but user-friendly editors have virtually NO programmability. >Programmability implies things that you cannot do with a menu-driven editor. Oh yeah? Wait till mouse-based editors have been around as long and hacked as much as VI... Are we just discussing the merits of existing editors or also the potential of different paradigms? Why would it be impossible to add complete mouse support and standard cut/paste to an Emacs-like editor? ...Guido
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!rutgers!lll-crg!seismo!mcvax!guido From: guido@mcvax.uucp (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: VI features, Editors, etc... Message-ID: <7107@boring.mcvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 14-Oct-86 17:25:39 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.7107 Posted: Tue Oct 14 17:25:39 1986 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Oct-86 22:44:58 EDT References: <8610022020.AA28814@cory.Berkeley.EDU> Reply-To: guido@boring.uucp (Guido van Rossum) Organization: "Stamp Out BASIC" Committee, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 19 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax