-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Clayton wrote:
You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ?
Thank the various gods for that!!!
This quote about vi about sums it up: ----- I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text editor and came up with this. ---- Source: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d
I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for a while to recover.
C.
I loath vi, but it was developed at a time when people connected with dumb terminals connected at 300bps or less where terse keyboard commands were vital and it did its job at that time. I have been working with various systems a decade longer, have actually used such things and believe me when the text crawls up the screen slower than one would normally write you do not want the full text windowing thing. Having said that I do think too many are little nostalgic about including outdated tools in base *NIX distributions and some like vi should be consigned to the dustbin of history. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQwf4asN0sSnLmgIRAusYAKDitXqtPo1wzXnPEb/tHvlsWHJFpwCglDbl HS7oPSPqTkjJxn2tn1ft9ss= =RTx1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org