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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!204.179.98.2!news.visigenic.com!news From: Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 11:08:48 +0000 Organization: Visigenic Software, Inc. Lines: 24 Message-ID: <330C30C0.2FA@visigenic.com> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5daq9b$tck@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <32F90AEB.41C6@osf.org> <5dbapu$t1f$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> <x7n2ti4s7i.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <5dc7qq$hed@phoenix.sysbe.sysgo.de> <5ddcvf$4dh@sun20.ccd.bnl.gov> <330a1d23.2419719@172.15.0.208> <5ef5c8$rgs@arktur.rz.uni-ulm.de> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> Reply-To: toneil@visigenic.com NNTP-Posting-Host: vsi48.visigenic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:160029 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2566 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:53893 comp.os.os2.advocacy:268878 J Wunsch wrote: > > "Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> wrote: > > > Or even vi, the most simple, yet incredible powerful editor there is. > > Microsoft has *never* created an editor with anything remotely like > > the usability and power of vi! > > You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with > one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''. (No, you don't need > to explain me vi in your followup. I'm using it, as well as one or > two other editors.) I thought vi was the ultimate evil in the universe until I realized that unlike just about anything else I could count on vi being present whenever installed a new unix system. And after I got a short readme on it, I'm pretty comfortable with it. Its ok for quick editing jobs. Once I figured out the basics, like how to search, go to the top and bottom of the buffer, and do simple cuts and pastes, its no big deal. I still prefer to use emacs when I do my major code building and whatnot though.