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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!serv.hinet.net!news.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!cs.utexas.edu!ennfs.eas.asu.edu!noao!math.arizona.edu!CS.Arizona.EDU!usenet From: Allen Brady Montz <bradym@cs.arizona.edu> 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: 05 Mar 1997 19:10:41 -0700 Organization: University of Arizona CS Department, Tucson AZ Lines: 35 Sender: bradym@helvetica.CS.Arizona.EDU Message-ID: <t8g1y9n526.fsf@helvetica.CS.Arizona.EDU> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <5dbapu$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$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330EF0FF.55CE@to.me.please> <5esial$eit@innocence.interface-business.de> <331480A2.57ED@to.me.please> <331b8dd2.765403234@mambo> NNTP-Posting-Host: helvetica.cs.arizona.edu X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.4.17/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:162920 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2722 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:55805 comp.os.os2.advocacy:271980 sangria@inlink.com (Sang K. Choe) writes: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 19:27:46 +0100, "Terje A. Bergesen" > <no.email@to.me.please> wrote: > > : J Wunsch wrote: > : > > : > "Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> wrote: > : > : [...] > : > > Ease of use doesn't nessesarily mean "easy to learn". > : > > : > But you've been the one telling it were ``most simple''. You might > : > attribute vi to whatever you want, but ``most simple'' is one of the > : > attributes it _doesn't_ deserve. > : > : Most simple doesn't mean "most intuitive to a new user". I can do > : things in vi that I wouldn't even know where to look for in the > : manual vith other editors. > > Tell me, how long have you spent working with vi? And how long have > you worked with other editors? > > It's interesting that people who claim vi is "easy" are those who have > spent years cutting their teeth on it. Whereas, these same people > will claim that other editors aren't as "easy" because they can't do > the same things with it after only a few weeks (if that long). > In my case, after using vi for 1 day, I was doing things I had no idea how to do in other editors. -- Brady Montz bradym@cs.arizona.edu