On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:39:33PM +0100, demerphq wrote: > On 02/03/2008, Peter da Silva <pe...@taronga.com> wrote: > > On 2008-03-02, at 05:50, demerphq wrote: > > > *Nix editors are laughingly hateful across the board. Lots of > > > features, too bad about the goddamned USER INTERFACE. > > > > > > What's an example of an editor that isn't hateful? > > To do that I would have to find one that wasn't implemented as software.
Well, there's always the "twiddling with a magnet" way of editing. > > Because I've never run across an editor on any other system that > > didn't suck by comparison with "vi", and most are more hateful than > > "ed". > > As far as user interfaces go 'vi' is *really* high up on my hate list, > so we probably aren't going to see eye to eye on this one. :-) My biggest hate regarding 'vi' are those wannabee-Un^WLinux distros that launch some editor when you type 'vi' on the command line, but which isn't vi at all. Abigail
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