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- From: gglass07@ursa.calvin.edu (Gideon Glass)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <gglass07.721361955@ursa>
- Sender: news@calvin.edu
- Organization: Calvin College
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 02:19:15 GMT
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- papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- >Why is it, in VI if I try to save a file without a name it doesn't prompt
- >me for a name? Instead it kicks me back to vi. Or if I try to quit without
- >saving. Why doesn't it ask me "Save y/n." There is no reason VI couldn't
- >have an "expert" mode that got rid of messages for those that don't want
- >them.
-
- [Lots more deleted]
-
- Listen, if you don't like VI, don't use it. Can't you get the point?
- Those of us who like UNIX use it. Those of you who don't can find
- yourselves another operating system. I'm tired of hearing your
- marketing-inspired bullshit hype about how no one's going to use UNIX
- after Window NT (or whatever) comes out. Plenty of people like UNIX
- fine without your stupid hypothetical novice-friendly user interface
- strapped on.
-
-
-
-
- --
- Gideon Glass </-=({[||]})=-\> gglass07@calvin.edu
- "The experiments of Skinner and other operant researchers did far
- more than teach us how to pull habits out of a rat."
-