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vi is noisy?
Authored by: bluehz on May 05, '03 10:52:28PM

I would have to agree - my favorite way to use vi is :q then joe!

I am all for the unix side of OS X and I am getting more and
more away from the GUI end of OS X the more I learn... but for
the life of me I can not figure out peoples love affair with vi.
You know your in trouble when you try something out and you
have to get the manual out and read before your can do the
most basic things... like backspacing. We're talking standards
that have been established and observed for the most part
across all platforms. Yet vi appears to come from some era
BEFORE these standard were established. I learn a lot of stuff, I
try to learn somthing new each day - but when I tried using vi I
found it to be the most frustrating, bassackwards app I had ever
used in my life. Why! Why! Why! When there are so many other
options... in all jest - I have this mental image of a yearly
convention of vi users right next door to the Quark
convention.... and they PARTEEEEEE!!!!



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vi is noisy?
Authored by: Accura on May 06, '03 04:20:52AM

VI is the most horrible program to learn, its all wrong! tho i use it to much that i installed VIM native in osx so it can be my default editor on the gui as well as the cli.

When u have learnt vi u can do things faster than u can think. i have problems keeping up with vi, its makes so much sense when u know it. I actually have problem using textedit or work or anything like that these days because it takes so long to do every thing.

if u find our self in the cli lots using pico (or even joe, tho thats not to bad an editor) make the effort to learn vi, its on eery unix system, and it works, quickly, effortlessly. Beware tho that you will HATE all other editors after you learn vi. Tho its a pain to code in unless u install some of the language tools (thats not there name but it sounds good)

James O'Farrell

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"The time has come," the walrus said. "To talk of many things..."



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