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From: Graham Broadbridge <grahamb@peachy.apana.org.au>
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: 9 Mar 1997 07:05:39 GMT
Organization: The Peachy Linux Node!
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In comp.os.linux.misc Andrae Muys <ccamuys@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
: Excuse me, first the commands aren't cryptic. r - replace, i - insert, c -
: change, d - delete, etc.  Secondly for a primary application like a text
: editor intuitiveness is of only secondary concern.  Power and ease of use
: (not learning) are the most signifigant factors in a successful text
: editor.  I would put flexibility next, and then an intuitive interface.
: VI is a very powerful, easy to use, text editor with a consistant UI.
: A text editor is a very important tool for me.  I use it every day, as a
: result I insist on a text editor that is powerful and easy to use, even if
: it means that I must spend a little time learning to use it well.

The crowd cheers :-)

Add to that the fact that some of us spend our lives maintaining source code
across 9 different UNIX platforms, and vi makes a lot of sense.

It's easy to use, it's powerful, and it's the only Visual mode text editor 
shipped as standard across all of those UNIX Operating Systems.

It may be difficult to learn, but then again so was edlin (which is the only
text editor available across all MS-DOS releases).

Graham.
(who takes a copy of vi for MS-DOS when he has to work on PeeCees :)

:x :-)

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