I'll just say that I've never met a person who really knew how to use vi and still hated it.
You can learn the basics of vi, and get it doing everything pico/nano does, in about 15 minutes. In pico i'm constantly banging on the arrows, backspace, or ctrl-[kvy]. In vi, my fingers never leave the keyboard. For me, it's a much more efficient tool for getting the job done. I suspect that's why a lot of us use Linux in the first place. ray On Sat, 2 Jul 2005, Dennis wrote: > On 7/2/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Don't know, don't know, and don't know. Both Ubuntu and Gentoo, my >> distro's of choice, use it as their preferred editor. I find it >> interesting that instead of replying to my main reason for not using vi, >> you replied with features it has that aren't even necessary for basic >> text editing. >> >> vi doesn't come by default on gentoo, either. > > > I will respond to your original reason. If the only tools that you are > willing to use, are the tools that require no learning at all, then expect > to waste hours doing the same function a thousand times.
