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> On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 04:47:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > (Strangled scream) Vi has got to be one of the worst editors I have
> > ever seen! DO NOT, repeate, DO NOT use VI.
>
> Learn vi, repeat, learn vi.
I have. I have even used it for a few days. Deadly, ghastly stuff!
Learn Emacs if you can't use pico.
> Because it (and its line-oriented alter-ago, ex) is/are the only editor
> that you can count on to be shipped with every Unix/Linux distribution
This is, unfortunately, true in some cases. but there is Jot and
whatever else on other platforms, once you get X up.
> Personally, I find vi far superior to pico, which lacks the power,
> regular-expression handling, macro programming and other features
> that I really enjoy about vi. Vi also has a remarkably consistent
Vi requires far too many keystrokes, and has far too many modes. Pico
is relatively flat, unsophisticated, and enough to get by.
> > Pico is small, fast, lousy, but serviceable. It is A LOT better than
> > VI, and can be had with the PINE mail handler.
>
> Pine is dead, as is elm. Mutt has subsumed and supplanted both.
You mean I have been using a dead mail handler for how many years?
Looks remarkably alive to me.
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