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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.232325.29227@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:23:25 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <Bt0BJG.HAv@cs.psu.edu> <714096328snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> <STI.92Aug19234728@kuuppa.cs.hut.fi>
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- From the keyboard of Sami.Tikka@hut.fi:
- :In article <714096328snx@n5ial.chi.il.us> jim@n5ial.chi.il.us (Jim Graham) writes:
- :
- :> I've even gotten comments like,
- :> ``ok, so you can do in one keystroke what it takes me 15 or 20
- :> keystrokes to do...what, are you TOO LAZY to do the rest?''
- :
- :I was rather under the impression the old time editors usually have a
- :more efficient interface, at least if you only count keystrokes. They
- :might even be somewhat mnemonic, but they lose in ease of use when
- :compared with the mice-and-menus-editors because when using them you
- :don't even have to remember anything. Just open up the menu and you
- :can read all the options from there. If it wasn't in this menu, just
- :move the mouse and you get to see the next one. See, nothing to
- :remember! Everyone can do it without reading the manualpage.
-
- Go read "GUIs Considered Harmful" in alt.religion.computers for
- more on this.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
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- "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor Too Big!" -me
-