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- From: jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria)
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.143949.15498@PacBell.COM>
- Keywords: vi, speed, power
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell
- References: <fortony.713578408@murphy> <4#4mt_p.messina@netcom.com> <fortony.713602130@murphy>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:39:49 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <fortony.713602130@murphy> fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
- >messina@netcom.com (Tony Porczyk) writes:
- >
- >>fortony@sonne.cso.uiuc.edu responds to Barbara Vaughan:
- >
- >>>I only type around 130 wpm, but I guarantee that I with vi can outperform
- >>>anyone using one of those silly mouse or F-key editors as long as they
- >>>type less than 150 wpm.
- >
- >>I find those "I'm a touch typist and with vi I can type 130 words a
- >>minute" to be as meanigful as a yesteryear's snow. Do you *program*
- >>at 130 words per minute? Do you write your reports at 130 words per
- >>minute? Who the hell cares how fast you can pound the keyboard? It's
- >>the ease of use with ergonomic designs that allows users to employ
- >>their editors at a speed that doesn't slow them down and that doesn't
- >>force them to spend two years to learn the commands and doesn't force
- >>them to interrupt their thinking to remember the stupid commands that
- >>matters. While I also prefer editors to word processors and don't use
- >>menus (unless I happen to go completely brain-dead and suddenly forget
- >>all commands) and despise rodents next to my computer, I find such
- >>declaration to be amusing at most.
- >
- >I don't see that you're disagreeing with me. The bit about typing
- >130 wpm was not a dick size contest move, it was peripheral. Typing
- >speed is correlative with programming speed, but that's not the issue.
- >
- > [ deleted text ]
- >
- >How long do you intend to be a novice that requires mice/menus/
- >F-keys? If you're a serious programmer/writer, you can learn enough
- >vi to be capable in five (5) minutes and enough to be great in 5 (five)
- >days. If it takes you longer than that, then you might well be in the
- >wrong field. vi is not really great for computer illiterates. Fine.
- >This, we have established. vi in the right hands is as close as you
- >can get to hooking your mind up to the computer without wiring.
- >
- >>t.
- Bravo! :-) I have been a UNIX user (about 4 years) and I would not
- trade VI for the world. If you have the knowledge of a few basic commands
- and learn from there, the power of VI is at your finger tips. Combine
- Vi with Eroff(Tm) and I can produce a document that other users think I
- used a MAC to produce. Yes, I agree, it takes a person with some bit of
- effort.
-
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