From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Mar 12 12:43:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7679537B718 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:43:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.47.12]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA2682; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:48:16 -0800 Message-ID: <3AAD34E4.E4B72CC1@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 12:43:16 -0800 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Young Cc: FreeBSD-newbies Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) References: <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3AAD1D20.48F149B1@acuson.com> <03c301c0ab32$2c7d5660$847e03cb@apana.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Young wrote: > > The period when VI was considered "user-friendly" was undoubtedly around the > time when the CEO of IBM declared that the world market for personal > computers > could go as high as five units. This was 1981-82. The IBM PC was still relatively new, but there were certainly more than five units :-) For a Unix user at that time, vi *was* the friendliest editor. Maybe you always remember your first love fondly, but even today I still use vi for editing configuration files, even if I happen to already have XEmacs up and running... David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message