Per Jessen said the following on 02/28/2013 01:04 PM:
Anton Aylward wrote:
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That sounds pretty limited and crippled compare to what's available for Linux.
It isn't. The description above is very poor and/or biased.
Perhaps you'd care to amplify that -- or even correct the Wikipedia article.
VI has line numbering, can work on blocks of lines, and has a command line option. There are also programming plug-ins available.
I wonder why Duaine wants to regress?
He doesn't want to regress, he wants to be effective. He is used to working with those editors and feel that they are way superior to vi et al. I completely understand where he is coming from. I have yet to reach the same level of fluency with vi that I had/have with the ISPF editor or the LPEX ditto.
Ah, that I can understand. My fingers know VI. All these editors that require me to take my hands off the keyboard and fiddle with mouse and menus and icons - and lets face it, icons range from incomprehensible to 'culturally specific'[1]. Still, it took me a decade to reach that level of programming my fingers. And then along came Microsoft, WordPerfect, Word and then Windows. BAH! Thank God I could escape to AIX! [1] garden shears? floppy disks? pencils? billiard balls? balloon? side view of Rubick's cube? go in every direction? big "A" (is that for 'apple')? 'the alphabet' - forward and reverse? soccer ball? jigsaw piece? hand whisk? 'into the box'? -- "Everybody comes to Rick's" - Cassablanca -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org