I like to use both (commandline and gui) who says you can't serve 2 masters :) When the gui skrooze up, I go in under the commandline and kick it in the butt with a kill command. On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: > It seems everyone has put their 2 cents in so why not me? > > <2 cents> > While my favorite editor is emacs, I have to say that > anyone that considers themselves an expert owes it to > themselves to learn vi(m). > There are times when only it will do the job, partly > because it might be the only editor available but because > it is always included in every dist. or UNIX. > Think of it as a basic skill that has to be learned. > > If you live your life entirely in a GUI then you never have > to think about it, but if you want to use the power and the > potential that comes with linux, then you have to get out > to the console and learn how to use the professional > editors that everyone else will be working with. > > This is the "Experts" list and anyone here might prefer to > use pico on a regular basis, but that doesn't mean they > will not have use of vi(m), and they should begin learning > it to be ready for the day they move into the heady relm of > expert in linux. > > Frankly I'm a bit surprised that such a debate even exists > on this list. While I could see it occuring on the newbie > list for those that intend to exist entirely in their X > desktop, In the experts list I'd only expect to see such > differences between the Vi and Emacs editor crowd. <LOL> > </2 cents> > > Ron > -- > ==== > Ron Marriage > E-Mail mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage
