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  4. From: deb@spectra.eng.hawaii.edu (David Barrett)
  5. Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov24.023755.28811@news.Hawaii.Edu>
  7. Sender: root@news.Hawaii.Edu (News Service)
  8. Nntp-Posting-Host: spectra.eng.hawaii.edu
  9. Organization: University of Hawaii, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
  10. References: <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov19.232533.2725@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <By09xC.8Hy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
  11. Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:37:55 GMT
  12. Lines: 18
  13.  
  14. In article <By09xC.8Hy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> weekslb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Weeks) writes:
  15. >
  16. >Also, some of us hate having to reach all over the stupid PC keyboard
  17. >to press an Insert key there, a Delete key here, an arrow key there.
  18. >I've always hated single mode editors, and I really hate arrow keys.
  19. >You can't beat vi for nice quick editing of simple documents and
  20. >program source code.
  21. >
  22. >Larry
  23. >--
  24.  
  25. Amen to that.  It even quickly edits when you don't want it to and takes
  26. 4 other keystrokes to bring it back.  It has also made switching back and
  27. forth to real word processors frustrating (like stop hitting "enter" instead
  28. of letting word-wrap do its thing).  And don't get me started on the position
  29. keys in insert mode :-( .  
  30.  
  31. dB
  32.