Re: New from Snide Computer Services !!!

In <1993Oct27.162747.639@dssmktg.com> rob@dssmktg.com (Rob Minter) writes: >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 ${EDITOR-vi} ... rather than vi ... (And probably rather see it named 'iee' (informix error edit :-) rather than vie. Or 'erre'. erred? err? ere? errie?) 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. :-) :-) (Don't get me wrong, I've used vi for ten years, run it under dos, and wouldn't part with it -- but I fully recognize it has an awful learning curve.) -- Andrew Burt aburt@du.edu "But if he was dying he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaaaargh", he'd just say it."