On 12/01/09 14:11, Christian Ebert wrote:
> * Efraim Yawitz on Monday, January 12, 2009 at 14:02:34 +0200
>> I think every vi/vim fan should see this satire on the steady progress
>> of computer interfaces toward serving only the illiterate:
>>
>> http://feeds.theonion.com/~r/OnionNewsNetwork/~3/503805247/92328
>>
>> Less and less people today realize that the keyboard (which I met on
>> typewriters in the 60's) is one of the greatest inventions in history
>> and even fewer know about the vi paradigm which makes such efficient
>> use of this tool.
>
> Maybe theonion should also do a news flash about the Vim
> community switching to a web interface for their discussions,
> encouraging the use of the mouse in conjunction with a graphical
> browser. Oh, wait, we're almost there already ;-)
>
> scnr
>
> c
The advantage of Vim is you get the choice: it has excellent support for
the keyboard, good support for the mouse, and you use whichever of them
suits you best at any moment. (And if you want, as in the movie, to use
the mouse and a character map utility to type text, you may, if your
version has +clipboard, though I know some people who will think you've
got bizarre tastes. Well, /de gustibus and coloribus non est disputandum/.)
Best regards,
Tony.
--
When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the
sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain
relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.
-- Robert Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance"
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