Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:54:08 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "David Johnson" <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: "FreeBSD-newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) Message-ID: <041201c0ab36$96629280$847e03cb@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103100913330.10006-100000@corten8> <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <3AAD1D20.48F149B1@acuson.com> <03c301c0ab32$2c7d5660$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <3AAD34E4.E4B72CC1@acuson.com>
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Actually I still have nightmares thinking about trying to get anything to work in linux. I'm messing around with OpenBSD at present (which doesn't have "ee") so there doesn't appear to be any immediate alternative to VI .... mind you pico is high on the list of apps to install. > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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