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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
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: 24 Feb 1997 06:44:32 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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In article <3314508c.253862546@mambo>, Sang K. Choe <sangria@inlink.com> wrote:
> You've obviously haven't spent much time trying to teach a bunch of
> new Freshmen CS students on how to get around in vi--that's vi, not
> vim, not elvis, not vile, not [fill in the blank].
No, but I have been through the process with 100 software engineers addicted
to a proprietary editor that was only available on our Xenix boxes, and which
we had to dump when we dumped Xenix.
> Spend just one semester fielding questions and trying to undo some of
> the mess they managed to get into, and you'll get a fairly jaded view
> of vi yourself.
I just feed them a copy of "tutor.vi", the self-paced vi tutorial that's
been floating around the net for 10 years, and I rarely hear another peep
out of them.
--
The Reverend Peter da Silva, ULC, COQO, BOFH.
Har du kramat din varg, idag? `-_-'