Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 19:22:13 +1000 From: "Doug Young" <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> To: "Bill Schoolcraft" <bill@wiliweld.com>, "Jesper Holmberg" <jeho5791@student.uu.se> Cc: "FreeBSD-newbies" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Enough is enough (emacs vs vi) Message-ID: <00ed01c0aa0c$c386e160$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> References: <Pine.GSO.4.30.0103100913330.10006-100000@corten8>
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> I've been using Unix type OS's for a while (1996) and have never > used emacs yet. Life with all the Unix's is difficult enough and I > have a motto of "I pick and choose my own battles...." and vi is a > battle enough. I've always wondered why whoever it was that developed VI had to make it so obtuse ... maybe there is a logical reason but thankfully the default FreeBSD includes the infinitely more user-friendly ee. I'm doing a bit on Open BSD at present & it doesn't have ee, so looks like I'll need to figure out some basic VI commands > > When I become a "vi pro" if there is such a thing, then I might > venture towards emacs. > </flame_proof> > > -- > Bill Schoolcraft > PO Box 210076 -o) > San Francisco CA 94121 /\ > "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v > http://forwardslashunix.com > > > > 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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