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- From: graeme@abekrd.co.uk (Graeme Griffiths)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Keywords: vi, speed, power
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.142058.13787@abekrd.co.uk>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 14:20:58 GMT
- References: <1992Aug6.150744.28135@bnr.ca> <1992Aug6.220308.10458@bvsd.co.edu> <1992Aug10.141520.2914@news.eng.convex.com> <1992Aug10.154956.5432@Princeton.EDU> <fortony.713578408@murphy> <4#4mt_p.messina@netcom.com> <fortony.713602130@murphy> <5x4m3sd.messina@netcom
- Organization: Abekas Video Systems, Reading, UK.
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- I knew it, I physically cringed when I first saw the subject line
- because I knew that, although the original post was a plain and simple
- "Isn't vi neat" message, this was just going to degenerate into a slanging
- match.
- O.K. some of us like vi,emacs etc and others (You know, the strange
- ones ;-) like the new generation complete with mouse drivers, menus, the
- works. I for one don't know much about these because I've found an editor
- that I like, I fail to see that one editor can actually go *quicker* than
- another when all editors I've seen run quick enough to keep up with my 2,3
- or 4 finger typing. Admittedly I mostly use editors to program with and in
- this case tend not to spend a great deal of time hauling large chunks of
- text about and formatting pages to look nice (hey thats what beautifiers
- are for) so many functions go unused.
- Just for the record I use jove as I found I like emacs-type editing
- (I've got long fingers and I play the guitar so ctrl-keys aren't a problem
- :-) and gnu emacs was just too big to get to grips with. I know vi enough
- to use fairly well in case of system crashes and the need to use the only
- editor available.
- This does not mean I frown on use of another editor by someone else,
- variety allows each of us to choose and (according to Monty Python) we are
- *all* different. Go with what suits you and drop the silly slanging match.
-
- And how come no-ones mentioned edlin ?.......
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- |Abekas Video Systems,12 Portman Rd,| and there's nothing you say, |
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