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- From: david@cats.ucsc.edu (David Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Keywords: vi, speed, power
- Message-ID: <16hrbeINNdak@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 15 Aug 92 02:49:18 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.154956.5432@Princeton.EDU> <fortony.713578408@murphy> <4#4mt_p.messina@netcom.com>
- Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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- In article <4#4mt_p.messina@netcom.com> 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.
- |
- |t.
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- I type *very* fast when I program. Often I will type similiar things
- over and over and over again. Other times I have to to jump to similiar patterms
- and change sections with a line and so forth. All this at high speed is very
- essential to me.
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- / \ All comments are mine---(David Wright)
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