In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/12/2006
at 04:39 PM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Presonally I prefer ed, because I can work with it.
vi includes ed.
>I cannot use vi. I use computers for years, people say, I'm not
>idiot.
I would be the last person to defend vi[1], but an awful lot of people
have managed to learn it, not all of them particularly bright. That
doesn't mean, of course, that they like it, or that some of them don't
use it only under duress, but if you're goping to deal with the Unix
world then really you need to hold your nose and learn it.
>Anything except getting beeping termial.
That's its user friendly error message ;-)
[1] I call it the Editor from Hell.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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