> This whole thread shows how the geeks won't let go of this
> stuff and thus Linux won't make it against winDOS or Mac.
> I can see Bill G. laughing all the way to the bank.
No, all it shows is the difference in requirements between someone who works
with system administration and flat-file text editing for hours a day and
the casual user who only rarely needs to edit a system configuration file.
Different editors have different uses. With practice, vi can be one of the
fastest ways to do heavy text-editing tasks. If you don't have need for
those tasks, it will seem cryptic and useless, but that doesn't mean that's
how it is for everyone. In DOS I tend to use Notepad or EDIT, as I usually
have to do very little text editing. In UNIX I'm usually coding, and the
time it takes to learn the (admittedly) numerous vi commands more than makes
up for the time it saves in actual use.
It all comes down to "to each his own".
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