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- From: ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward)
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- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <Bt9CEw.K42@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 01:06:32 GMT
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- In article <sjreeves.920819174130@fourier.ee.eng.auburn.edu> sjreeves@eng.auburn.edu (Stan Reeves) writes:
- |I know this may sound almost oxymoronic, but has anyone ever considered
- |a menu/mouse-driven version of vi? I wonder if it's even possible.
- [..]
- |Those of us who know better (;-) would ignore the menus, but it would make
- |it much easier on novices.
-
- that would probably, well, not probably, definitely, make it too slow.
-
- |I wouldn't have to endure Unix neophytes bad-mouthing my favorite
- |editor. :-)
-
- that's an easy one to fix. our neophytes use Sun's silly textedit thing. some
- stick with it, because they are too stuck up to learn anything more powerful,
- but some see others using emacs or vi and stop wondering why the hell it
- takes them twice as long as someone else to type in a paper.
-