> From: "Curtis L. Olson" > > And of course, every experienced unix professional knows the original > "vi" was already perfect.
Not every. Some switched to emacs and thereafter would install emacs first before doing anything with a new machine. :-) > 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. For those who don't know...vim works NOTHING like notepad. ;-) > 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! > >From any laptop with terminal emulation: cat >ansi and then paste into the >emulator. Better yet, these days it is almost (not completely) reasonable to refuse to work with equipment lacking either an ethernet port or a command line ftp/httpd client. Best, Jim -- Jim Wilson Kelco Industries PO Box 160 Milbridge, ME 04658 207-546-7989 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
