peter nikolic wrote:
On Thursday 10 May 2007, 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.
Having used several screen-oriented editors, on various operating systems even, I have yet to use anything with the power:ease of use ratio that vi has. While emacs is more powerful, it's...maddening to learn. By comparison, I've also used se (and old BSD Screen Editor complete with a "hint" bar on the bottom of the screen), and the ubiquitous XEDIT on IBMs, plus the various offerings on computers in the 8- and 16-bit microcomputer eras....
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There is one even more infuriating piece of editor ware anyone remember "Edlin" ye gads .. no that even makes "vi" look good
or "ed" which is still found on all Unix and Linux systems (mainly because there are some programs that use it in a sort of batch mode) (google for ed-is-the-one-true-editor :-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org