On 25Oct03:0930-0500, Gary Eheman wrote: > Prefaced with the old analogy that "Editors are like philosophy and > religion. Mine is best and you won't convince me otherwise." > > As a person who is asked to login and fix things on all flavors > (sometimes *very* ancient releases) of "*ix" and "*ux", > the beauty of "vi" is that I can count on it being present, > and it works. I need that consistency in my life. If I need > a little more text manipulation power, I can reach regular > expressions and awk or sed or both for the same availability > reason. Every editor exists because a developer thought they > needed a better one than the one they were using. It is too > easy to bad mouth any editor. I resist. See my opening sentence. > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 18:26:10 -0500, Steve Beaver <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Some of you may not remember that there used to be a PC product named SPFPC. > > > >Has anyone ever seen an equivalent product for AIX or Linux. > >VI is a uselessly pain
Remember vi is very much UNIX--it is user friendly but choosey about its users. I, too, made a career of logging onto things of all flavors needing fixing. Dependable behavior matters at such times. Dependable availability also matters. I found it not so painful once I invested the necessary time to learn what it can do and how to do it. Then it's just a matter of using it regularly. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
