> Well, I took a look at vi and emacs...and vi seemed to have the shorter
> learning curve. I'm sure I'll get into them both, though.
I *strongly* recommend learning vi for two reasons:
1. vi, and it's alter ego, "ex" (which is the same editor in line
mode instead of full-screen) mode are shipped with every version
of Unix and Linux that I'm aware of. If you want to be able to
sit down at J. Random Unix Box and do something, you *must* know vi.
(6-7 years ago, the same could be said of "ed", the original
and quite terse Unix editor.)
2. Emacs is an incredible resource pig. It is the canonical example
of software bloat and creeping featurism, and as such, it flies
in the face of the entire Unix design philosophy, which is "one task,
one tool". And for all that, skilled vi users can handle the same
editing tasks just as rapidly.
---Rsk
Rich Kulawiec
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