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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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Fri, 6 Oct 2000 20:59:24 GMT
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MATTDM@MATTDM.avoidspamORG
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Dan Boger <dan@peeron.com> wrote:
> > hand shifted one key to the left of where it should be and b) makes you hit
> > ESC a lot, even though that tends to be way the hell up in the corner.
> not to start a holy war, but vi has all sorts of weirdnesses in it... like,
> oh, modes? :)
Right. Any editor that makes you be in a special mode to *edit* is
fundamentally flawed.
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Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
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| (...) Indeed. vi sucks... however I feel it's good to know since it is likely to be on every unix box you walk up to. My preferred editor (emacs) often has to be installed in order for me to use it. I feel the same way about notepad on Windows (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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