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10.5: Restore Terminal's welcome message
It's not that hard to use, really - It's... different.
10.5: Restore Terminal's welcome message
I loathe vi. It's so arcane and obscure in it's use. I, as others have stated, prefer nano (or pico).
Vi
Like a good beer, a smokey Scotch, and a raunchy blue cheese, vi is an acquired taste. Once you get used to it, vi is a fast and powerful text editor. I prefer it to all other terminal-based editors. That being said, I would never force-feed it to novice users without a lengthy introduction. They would probably just spit it out!
Vi
vi, if you know it well, is *incredibly* powerful. I use it for almost all text editing. The stuff it can do is just utterly amazing - if you know how to use it (note actually I'm referring to vim more than the original vi).
To Vi or not Vi(|m)
I am trying to use vi as my preferred CLI based texteditor, primarily due to the fact that it is supposed to be available on all *NIX platforms, so the idea is to try to get better using a tools available at all places, hence be productive on all platforms, that a more user-friendly tool, that is NOT availble when I need it.
To Vi or not Vi(|m)
Yes. My recommendation is install cygwin (www.cygwin.com) which will provide the familiar unix shells, commands, and man pages. If you have unix skills, then once you have cygwin on your windows system you'll wonder how you managed without it. Cygwin also provides an X client and other packages you can select on install.
If all you want is vim try www.vim.org
To Vi or not Vi(|m)
Actually THAT have been on my very-long todo list for a very long period of time, thanx for reminding me! |
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