Will Hill wrote:

>On Saturday 02 July 2005 11:05 am, Andrew Baudouin wrote:
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>>Well, I despise vi, so I guess that makes us even.
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>What does this mean?
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It means what it says.  Shannon had a useless answer, so I had a useless 
reply.

>>Vi wins the award for most unusable interface for an editor.....ever.
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>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.  
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I don't need the functionality it has, so I don't need to use an editor 
that I cannot figure out how to use without opening it.

>>I should not have to read a manpage to figure out how to use an editor.
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>You don't, just use another editor.
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K.


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