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- From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.225839.1828@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:58:39 GMT
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- lachlan@dmp.csiro.au (Lachlan Cranswick) writes:
-
- >The fact that vi is powerfull is part of the problem with new users
- >of UNIX. They need something simple that is easy to learn.
- >VI is not in this category.
-
- Vi's editing expressiveness (hey, I've coined a new phrase!) has
- nothing to do with ease of learning. That's more of a user interface
- issue.
-
- Vi is simple to learn, but there aren't many good tutorials or teachers
- for it. New users --- usually those with a personal computer
- background --- expect to have immediate feedback when they use a text
- editor. For example, they expect be able move the cursor using the
- ``arrow'' keys, and have the characters they type echoed on terminal.
- Once they understand the three major modes in vi, and a bit of history
- regarding vi, things make much more sense.
-
- Regards,
-
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- Soh Kam Hung, Network Management Research, | h.soh@trl.oz.au
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