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- From: djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu (David Weisberger)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:11:56 GMT
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- Paul Prescod (papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
- : >Again, vi is not a drop-in replacement for Microsoft Write. It's
- : >an extremely powerful editor of text files. If you want to whine,
- : >consider asking Microsoft why they don't have a command line in
- : >their editors.
- :
- : Microsoft has a *PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE* built into word. I can't
- : imagine why someone would prefer a command line to keystrokes
- : and requester windows.
-
- Try: power. With a command line, you can do exactly what you want to
- do (assuming the requisite knowledge) without being limited and slowed
- by predefined options and nice windows.
-
- : >Your lack of attentiveness is simply not our problem. The bottom of
- : >every man page I've seen about 'vi' contains a pointer to the actual
- : >vi manual.
- :
- : Would you like me to mail you our man pages or will you take my word for it
- : that it says nothing about other man pages.
- :
- Neither did the previous poster. "Manual" = offline book.
-
- : If you launch an editor from VI, that editor should be a wordprocessor. If
- : it is vi, vi should be in wordprocess mode. If it doesn't, that is a flaw.
- :
- Not to split hairs, but ha ir we go: there is a difference between an
- editor and a wordprocessor. vi is an editor. Hey, I even found DOS's
- edlin rapid and effective for making specific, small-scale changes.
- vi and other editors have that advantage, among others.
-
- : If help does nothing at the command prompt. That is a flaw.
- :
- This is true.
-
- You might find yourself better served by reading up on vi or other UNIX
- monsters which baffle you instead of using whatever wordprocessor you
- use to pound out your replies to this thread.
-
- --
- -Davebo "A Freudian slip is when you say one thing
- when you're really thinking about a mother."
- djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu -Cliff the Postman
-