From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 8:53:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snoopy.postfuture.com (smtp.postfuture.com [209.51.13.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574DA37BF80 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 08:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wsenn@postfuture.com) Received: from wwsenn (client.newscast.com [199.97.239.8]) by snoopy.postfuture.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id NNVQ640N; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:52:49 -0500 From: "Will Senn" To: "Freebsd-Questions" Subject: Bigoted? Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 10:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Let's not get bigoted here. vi _is_ primitive; however, it is also >sufficient for editing text, fast and most importantly ubiquitous. I wasn't trying to sound bigoted - a person obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices, per http://www.m-w.com. I use Ultraedit for NT more than any other text editor (work). I was merely pointing out that vi is _not_ primitive. It has more features for text editing than 99% of the editors available today. many of these features are accessible from single keystrokes. They are also somewhat cryptic, but not primitive. vi is not fast because it is simple, it has an incredibly sophisticated, read advanced, codebase. Later, Will To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message