On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:04 +0100, Kaare Rasmussen wrote:
I don't think anyone would argue that vi isn't the standard editor. My point is that it's an ill-chosen and obsolete one, especially since it's so
You can call vi many things. You can't call it obsolete.
Well, if a linux box doesn't have vi I battle to use it. vi is both simple and complicated, it does the quick edit very effiently and it can do the complicated task that even programmers require, I support over 1000 System with it remotley, and have tried many other programs. Not are quick and easy enough to for me. vi filename <ins> edit file nav with arrow keys jump up and down (LOL) with page up and down <shift>:wq to save an quit There are tone of features that I jst can't do with out like dw delete word d3000 clears from here to the end of a file yy yank a line and press p to paste more and more and more basically I have proven it so many times, to coloegues and friends, that I can build webpages and config files and readme faster than they can in any other editor.. maybe I am a vi man, who knows... my 2c Chadley