On Monday 21 Mar 2005 19:35, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On March 21, 2005 10:41, Duncan Anderson wrote: > ... > Learning to use "vi" never killed anybody. > ... > > No, it just made them wish they were dead! 8^} > > Vi is one of those necessary evils, because sometimes when your system is > really messed up, it's one the few things that will still work, and that > can save you. But I would never use it when something more sane was > available. > > Forget to hit "i" and all your typing gets executed as commands. If you're > a touch typist, you look back to the screen and your whole file is trashed. > Nothing to do but ":q!" and start over. Forget to hit <esc> after inserting > and all your commands are embedded in your file instead of being executed. > Oh, and don't forget, if you're at the end of a line, you have to use "a" > instead of "i". I could go on and on. > > Worst Editor Ever! (in the voice of Comic Book Guy) > You know, this is one of those cases where 'experts' hit more trouble than newbies. Because you are unsure of yourself you progress very slowly, and you see immediately if something is not behaving as you expect. My knowledge of vi amounts to maybe half a dozen commands, but it can get me out of trouble, and that's all I ask of it. Don't ask me about emacs <g>
> But I don't want to restart the Editor Wars! To each his/her own. 8^} ;-) Couldn't resist it. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels
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