I first encountered Unix on a PDP-11-60?) in 1978. Cpt S 215 at Washington State University. The instructor taught ed. When I discovered vi, I was almost in heaven. That class was almost my last unix experience. Cpt S 315 was IBM 360 Assembler. With Struble. I left that semester on an internship, learned Cobol, and a 43-year career with MVS and descendants with a little VM mixed in.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Gary Eheman > Sent: Friday, October 3, 2025 7:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: AIX Question > > 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 > > > > > > > >Sent from my iPhone > > > >No one said I could type with one thumb > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > >email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
