Nick, I think it depends what role you are. when your elders were using 64K machines and *bragging* about it, VI was the only thing available, running X was not an option, even today, X is not an option in a lot of cases.
If you are a coder, that is a different matter. But any sysadmin worth his salt uses VI because he is sure that it exists on any unix system he has access to. and in the extreme rare case where it is *NOT* available, we just cat and echo :) There is an O'Reilly book about VI, pick it up someday, you'll learn a lot. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Leslie Satenstein < [email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Nick Nobody <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 16:48 -0400, Chris O'Regan wrote: >> > > VIM is a simple text editor [...] >> > >> > Simple?! I keep learning new things in VIM that often save me *hours* >> > of work, and I probably use only 1% of its features. I figure that >> > once I learn 5%, my work-week will be a few minutes long and at 10% I >> > will actually start going back in time... >> > >> > >> > Chris >> >> Please share some these "things". >> >> I tried using vim for a week and gave up after a day. I found that it >> was much more efficient to simply use kate or gedit... >> >> So I guess my question is: Why is vim so amazing? >> >> nick >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> > > > > -- > > VIM is so amazing because it is VI with colour. > > ------------------- > Regards > > Leslie Satenstein > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > >
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