Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 17:16:55 -0400 (EDT) From: FreeBSD Mailing List Info <fbsd@vta.com> To: abc@shell.wetworks.org, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi? lynx? please! Message-ID: <200006302116.RAA05907@mailhub.vta.com> In-Reply-To: <20000630080621.B1856@shell.wetworks.org>
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My mentor, who is one of those bus-level archetecture kernel hacking big-endian little-endian guys like Mr. Greenman et all, started me out on vi when I was just starting out. He calls those editors which require X and - or a mouse FCW interfaces ( Clickety Widgety - the 'F' is usually silent. ) Now, the biggest problem I have with vi is the annoying habit I've picked up sprinkling my $MS word docs with ":q!" . It's interesting to me also that every useful book I've ever read on any pointy-mashy based operating system starts out early by discouraging the use of pointy-mashy development environments in favor of Real Development Environments that use fast, text-mode editors and command line interfaces. Even 'Macinsquash' books seem to reccomend MPW over pointy-mashy thingys. If you ever intend to do serious work, learn vi, you'll thank yourself later. -GB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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