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    Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Matthew Miller
   (...) Right. Any editor that makes you be in a special mode to *edit* is fundamentally flawed. (24 years ago, 6-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) 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)
   
        Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Dan Boger
   (...) while I used to use vi only in emergancies, I found that lately I use it (vim) almost exclusivly. Not really sure why, cause I did install emacs on my laptop... weird. (...) well, on windows you rarely actually need to edit text files... (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Larry Pieniazek
     (...) be (...) be (...) au contraire. It's partly a style issue and partly a matter of the type of work you do, but I totally disagree, at least for me. I was just at a client in Alabama (monday thru yesterday) teaching them how to use our product (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Dan Boger
     (...) yup... pretty different situation... if I ever need to touch a win box at work, it's usually to set up the network on it, or install something for a client. Never do any kind of development or even desktop use on it. yah, right now I have (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
   
        Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au —Jennifer L. Boger
   (...) i use wordpad all the time, what are you talking about? :P (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 

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