Martin Baehr is on permanent record as saying: :On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:33:23PM +1200, CF wrote: :> I've just received a Sun Sparcserver 20MP, and the only editor installed :> is vi.... :> So I *have* to get to grips with it :-( : :i have run into this situation more than once, :it is the only reason why i switched from emacs to vi. :i might still be an emacs user if it weren't for that.
Back in university, during my introductory assembly language course, we had two options. Either we could debug in one room (on the devel boards) and edit/assemble in another room, or we could use a serial connection to edit/assemble from the same room. Vi's moded operation was the only choice of editor that we had. (I guess we could have used ed, but I'm not that masochistic. ;) And once you scale the learning curve, it was not hard to fall in love with the beast. Lately, I've moved onto vim. The feature set and extensibility are quite nice. And since vim is available cross platform, I don't have to abandon my comfortable environment for some windows crap keybinding that pretends to be vi-like. Interestingly, the scripting within vim has allowed users to put together an fairly vast array of modules, which strikes me as more emacs-like. The old argument was that emacs was "everything but the kitchen sink, and they're working on that" and vi was simply a good editor. Now it's just a big grey area. Choose what you like. Greg --- -
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