From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 16:15:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freeside.fc.net (freeside.fc.net [207.170.70.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC897153C6 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:14:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdunham@freeside.fc.net) Received: (from jdunham@localhost) by freeside.fc.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id SAA32405; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:12:58 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham Message-Id: <200001270012.SAA32405@freeside.fc.net> Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice In-Reply-To: from Jonathon McKitrick at "Jan 26, 2000 11:07:32 pm" To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:12:58 -0600 (CST) Cc: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick babbled: > From jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Wed Jan 26 17:07:42 2000 > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jerry Dunham wrote: > > >Or just as slowly. The learning curve for vi is very painful, and I > >understand the curve for Emacs is no better. > > > >I'm a vi user, and use it on every platform I use: UNIX, WinNT, and Atari. > >I really appreciate that it's so universal. Even so, the interface sucks. > > I know vi is universal, but for your own use, have you tried VIM? I > would expect you have, but i thought i would ask. Vastly imporved > interface, with multiple buffers and other emacs-like > features. Definitely worth a look. Plus color syntax > highlighting! I was generacizing. I have vim and Lemmy on my NT notebook, STeVIe on my Atari, vim and nvi on my FreeBSD machine, and nvi on my SGI. I actually like Lemmy the best. I'm writing this reply with nvi on someone else's FreeBSD machine. By far the nicest aspect of vi is that I can find an editor with the basic vi functionality on pertnear any machine I have need of using. It's called standardization. That (and inertia) keeps me with vi. I wonder whether anyone has ported vi to the Sinclair.... :-) -- Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H) Gerald_Dunham@dell.com (512)728-4026 (O) E Pluribus Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message