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- From: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com (Greg Hunt)
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.132820.24901@dg-rtp.dg.com>
- Sender: hunt@hobbit (Greg Hunt)
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 13:28:20 GMT
- Reply-To: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
- References: <8d1mgqh.genef@netcom.com> <1992Aug6.220308.10458@bvsd.co.edu> <2991@isgtec.isgtec.com>
- Organization: Data General Corp., Research Triangle Park, NC
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- In article <2991@isgtec.isgtec.com>, robert@isgtec.com (Robert Osborne) writes:
- > genef@netcom.com (Gene Fornario) writes:
- > #ian@bvsd.co.edu (Ian Nelson) writes:
- > #>I know how to use VI pretty well and I still think it sucks. Why can't
- > #>they port a good editor like Qedit or MultiEdit to UNIX? I admit that
- > #>vi is powerful and it is pretty quick, but behind Qedit (with menus and
- > #>arrow keys) I can produce stuff much faster, when I use the hotkeys, I
- > #>go even faster.
- >
- > How can you be faster using arrow keys? I lose almost 10 keystrokes
- > whenever I leave the home row to use arrow keys (which is why I
- > hate DOS programs such as Wordperfect).
- >
- > #I'm a relative newcomer from the DOS to the Unix world, and I would say
- > #Unix for all of it's power above and beyond DOS lacks the user-friendliness
- > #of DOS software such as Q-Edit (My fav!). Some engineers and programmers
- > #may frown on this attitude, but I'm more interested in getting down to
- > #business. Q-Edit's menus have proven invaluable in that respect.
- >
- > Most programmers spend most of their day in their editors; so they are
- > concerned with efficiency. Mouse/function keys/menus are not efficient
- > they are easy to learn. The 'getting down to business' attitude is the
- > exchange of long term gains for short term ease of use.
-
- Why don't people realize that different people like different types
- of editors (control key, function key, mouse, menu, etc.) because they
- think about things in different ways?
-
- I believe it's just like how programmers think. Different people will
- come up with different solutions to the same problem because they
- approach it differently.
-
- I don't see why it should be any different with how people think about
- editing.
-
- We should have different types of editors so different people who think
- about editing tasks differently, will all be able to get their work
- done in the ways that they prefer. Trying to force everyone to use the
- same editor will just frustrate lots of people who don't think about
- editing things the way that particular editor requires.
-
- --
- Greg Hunt email: hunt@dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com
- DG/UX Core Development
- Data General Corporation
- Research Triangle Park, NC, USA These opinions are mine, not DG's.
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