Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:12:58 -0600 (CST) From: Jerry Dunham <jdunham@fc.net> To: jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (Jonathon McKitrick) Cc: jdunham@fc.net (Jerry Dunham), grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Message-ID: <200001270012.SAA32405@freeside.fc.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001262305110.38868-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> from Jonathon McKitrick at "Jan 26, 2000 11:07:32 pm"
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Jonathon McKitrick babbled:
> From jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Wed Jan 26 17:07:42 2000
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Jerry Dunham wrote:
>
> >Or just as slowly. The learning curve for vi is very painful, and I
> >understand the curve for Emacs is no better.
> >
> >I'm a vi user, and use it on every platform I use: UNIX, WinNT, and Atari.
> >I really appreciate that it's so universal. Even so, the interface sucks.
>
> I know vi is universal, but for your own use, have you tried VIM? I
> would expect you have, but i thought i would ask. Vastly imporved
> interface, with multiple buffers and other emacs-like
> features. Definitely worth a look. Plus color syntax
> highlighting!
I was generacizing. I have vim and Lemmy on my NT notebook, STeVIe on my
Atari, vim and nvi on my FreeBSD machine, and nvi on my SGI. I actually
like Lemmy the best. I'm writing this reply with nvi on someone else's
FreeBSD machine. By far the nicest aspect of vi is that I can find an
editor with the basic vi functionality on pertnear any machine I have need
of using. It's called standardization. That (and inertia) keeps me with
vi.
I wonder whether anyone has ported vi to the Sinclair.... :-)
--
Jerry Dunham FreeBSD Atarian ordinaire
jdunham@fc.net (512)335-0674 (H)
Gerald_Dunham@dell.com (512)728-4026 (O)
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