On Saturday 02 July 2005 11:05 am, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > Well, I despise vi, so I guess that makes us even.
What does this mean? > > Vi wins the award for most unusable interface for an editor.....ever. That's not true. Like any good tool, it takes getting used to but it's well thought out and works. Using hjkl for motion is a great idea, so modes are a good idea. You never have to take your fingers off the home keys. Konqueror has adopted this too and this plus a nipple keyboard pointer is an extremely easy to use interface. Once a few basics are grasped, vi is a powerful and fast editor. As you learn to use it, you learn regular expressions. > > I should not have to read a manpage to figure out how to use an editor. > You don't, just use another editor. and On Saturday 02 July 2005 06:25 pm, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > Your post is the essence of Linux elitism. Nonsense. Vi is just a tool and anyone can be trained to use it. It has it's advantages and is worth the half hour it takes to learn it from a text.
