Vi was an achievement in its time, but its design was dictated by the terminals available when it was written. My argument against vi now is that terminal technology has advanced enormously and has made editing modes possible that weren't practicable when vi was written. but VI is still a powerful tool, so is emacs. I can do things in VI
On Fri November 11 2005 3:38 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: that would take hours in a graphical editor, or at least many more menu item selections.
I admit I pray to RMS every day and I am an EMACSIAN.
I'm an emacsian too (or an Emacsian, to use RMS's preferred capitalization). I still find the Emacs directory mode the easiest way to do most file operations, even under KDE. And my desktop includes a "root emacs" icon for running Emacs with root privileges.
and I use VI from the ALT-F1 text-mode login screen, when I need to do something as root... to each his/her own :) I don't need a desktop icon to run VI, just a Konsole/terminal window, which I normally have 1 or 2 of minimized. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-pcartwright/key.asc