On Friday 15 November 2013 14:44:43 Jon Elson did opine:
> Mark Wendt wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 3:27 PM, dave <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> A friend of mine simply says "vi is vile".
> >> However, if you happen to think the way it does then it make sense
> >> else go searching for an alternative.
> >> Good luck. ;-)
> >>
> >> Dave
> >
> > Been a Unix/VMS system and network admin for over 20 years now. vi is
> > still my primary editor. The developers seem to like emacs and
> > xemacs. Another old retired sysadmin I know won't use anything other
> > than Jove. Like Kent said, there's no tellin' for taste. ;-)
>
> URRRppp! I have had to struggle with vi occasionally when setting up a
> new system,
> to edit network files so I could download emacs. I can barely make it
> save a file.
> (Just lack of training on it, probably.)
>
> Jon
Its a good editor Jon, but it is different, one of the few dual mode
editors I've used.
Cheers, Gene
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