>While I admit to using an SPF clone[1] on my PC, I believe that emacs >is more common. As to vi, it may well be The Editor From Hell, but it >is also the only editor that you can count on finding in an arbitrary >*ix system. So keep[2] vi.
My first computer language was Assembler/360. When the PC's came about, I was absolutely capable of learning the Intel Assembler. I made a conscious decision not to do so and relegate low level programming to C. In the same vain, my first text editor was the cryptic and arcane ISPF. When it was time to move to things like Unix, I made a conscious decision not learn yet another cryptic and arcane text editor such as vi or Emacs. On the PC I use Notepad++ and SPFLite (both are for basically for free - you should register with SPFLite and donate to Notepad++. On Linux I use Gedit when it's available. ZA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
