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
