RE: Hating vi

> >In article <2aklosINNkat@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> bhartman@nic.cerf.net (Brady Hartman) writes: > > >>I hate vi. > >Thank you for the pertinent and enthusiastically inspiring comment. So ? > I think what he's saying, if I may bo so bold as to speak for the editor-ially > challenged, is that he'd prefer to see the script modified ever so slightly > to say [stuff deleted...] > I have to agree with folks who hate vi, though -- after all it is, in > essence, not much more than Bill Joy's personal editor. Unix ought to, > indeed, come with something like 'pico' as an editor for casual users > and programmers who don't touch type or enjoy typing self-documenting sequences > of characters like 75|Bhr^Mk. (And I thought v.42bis modems didn't have > problems with line noise. :-) :-) Awwww, for a moment, I was hoping there'd be a resurgence of TECO! ;-) Now THERE's an editor! (although, scary as it may sound, my husband told me over dinner the other night that someone HAS created a version for Unix! Aggghhh!!!) - Cg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --- ---- - Corinne Gregory (corinne@ocsg.com) - - - - - Mgmt. Consultant Financial Data Systems, Inc --- - - --- - 2451 152nd Ave. NE - - - - - Redmond, WA 98052 - ---- ---- - 206.881.6505 Diver's Creed: "Go deep, stay long." ------------------------------------------------------------------------