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Re: OT: P!$#ed of at ebay.com.au
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Sat, 7 Oct 2000 03:28:28 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Miller writes:
> 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? :)
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> Right. Any editor that makes you be in a special mode to *edit* is
> fundamentally flawed.
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 boxes, it stinks but it's how I
usually program if I am at a client site for only a day or two.
(15 years ago I felt the same way about edlin, terrible to use but always
there... however back then my favorite PC editor (T) fit on one floppy so I
could install it without any big deal...)
++Lar
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| (...) 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)
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