As the saying goes, vi has two modes: one where it corrupts your data, and one where it beeps at you.
On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:44 AM Steve Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? > > Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful? > > Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. > Expct mistaks > > > > On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:57 AM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On 1/26/2021 7:42 PM, David Crayford wrote: > >> I know the old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks but why not > just learn native Linux tools? > > Because somebody decided that "end save" would be "<esc>:wq" which of > course makes perfect sense :) > > > > Actually, I barely know enough of the vi editor to get by, and have to > google every time even for simple things like how to move to the bottom of > a file. But other mainframe folks I work with are far worse than me. > > > > Still, I agree with you. Just learn what everybody else has already > found to work best in that environment. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
