Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:56:31 -0500 (EST) From: "c. schindler" <cschindl@wam.umd.edu> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au>, FreeBSD-newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0103121653410.26272-100000@rac2.wam.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <3AAD3CB8.152300F9@acuson.com>
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i agree. vi is very powerful editor once u get comfortable with it. pico is decent for newbies, but if your are writing large scale programs, vi is better for maneuvering through all those lines of code. ---------------- chris news for freeBSD-newbies, stuff that really matters On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, David Johnson wrote: > Doug Young wrote: > > > > 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. > > Of course, use what you want, but every Unix system will have vi, but > might not have ee or pico. It might not be the easiest, but vi is > something that newbies should learn. You don't have to learn all the vi > commands, but only a few of them can take you a long ways. > > 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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