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- From: soh@tmp_ip_003.trl.OZ.AU (Soh Kam Hung)
- Subject: Re: VI??? GROSS!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.221427.14188@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <BxprL6.86E@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> <1992Nov17.024616.17732@dmp.csiro.au> <1992Nov17.225839.1828@trl.oz.au> <1992Nov18.095812.439@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 22:14:27 GMT
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- buboo@alf.uib.no (Ove Ruben R Olsen) writes:
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- >Beware the ignorance of the Lambs :-)
-
- Baa baa to you, Ove! What does the ``ignorance of the lambs'' mean?
- I don't know whether to be amused or mortified. P-)
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- >Many of these tutorials are EXSTREMLY good. Do not make asumptions
- >about something that you may or may not know 100 %.
-
- Ick! I haven't been keeping up with the comp.editors index of vi
- related files. After having a look, I found more tutorials on vi,
- including a course for teaching it!
-
- >Those with a PC background should use JOE, pico or something else
- >untill they hit the ceiling and ask: "Why can't I...", then you show
- >them the strength of VI.
-
- I usually start by showing those users utilities such as tr, sed or
- awk, since they tend to encounter batch processing problems. Then, I
- mention vi or emacs and give them some tutorial documents.
-
- Regards,
-
- Soh Kam Hung, Network Management Research, | h.soh@trl.oz.au
- TRL, POB 249 Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia | +61 3 253 6638
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