Curtis L. Olson wrote:

> 
> And of course, every experienced unix professional knows the original
> "vi" was already perfect.  These so called "improvements" in vim are
> simply a bunch of dumb bandaids and cruches to help out those lazy
> people who don't have 6 months to learn *real* vi and who think every
> editor ought to work like notepad in windows.  So what happens if you
> have to access a system remotely and the terminal emulation is broken so
> you can't do a full screen visual edit of a file.  You better be able to
> find your way around in ed ... at least well enough to reconstruct an
> ascii terminfo file by hand from scratch!
> Curt.
> 

Ed is for noobs. If you are a real programmer you will know that all you
need is a > redirect and a working shell. Write access to /dev/mem is
handy too :)

Josh


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