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From: Douglas Seay <seay@absyss.fr>
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: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 13:08:12 +0000
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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de>
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> "Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> wrote:
> >  This
> > is to me very intuitive, but I am quite aware it is not intuitive
> > for a new user.
> 
> Well, that's the point.  Define ``intuitiveness''.  Basically, this
> term describes that you can quickly start with something, and have a
> low learning curve.

I've never looked for a definition of ``intuitiveness'', but I thought
it was "once you know feature A, how easily to you use B for the first
time".  same look-and-feel is IMHO the crux of intuitive.  vi has that.

Command line arguements are

	colon [range] letter(s) [arguement(s)]
	ie- :.,$s/THIS/THAT/g
	ie- :wq

and the rest are

	[times] letter(s) [arguement]
	ie- 5dd
	ie- dw

The curve to learn "A" is steep, I think that most of us agree on that.
And it takes forever to learn h-j-k-l if you don't have cursor keys on
your keyboard.  But after that, the rest is easy, even "intuitive" :-)

doug seay
seay@absyss.fr