On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:43:51PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote: >Oh boy. What will they do next. > >I wondered why my .vimrc from my old machine wouldn't work with the new >lindows box. man vi showed the answer. They were using elvis as a replacement >for vi. I downloaded vim with synaptic (this debian stuff seems awfully >convenient) and now all is fine. > ><rant>It sure is great having all these choices in linux. Makes you >wonder why linux hasn't taken over the desktop yet. Seriously, if a vi >like editor is good, why really do we need several clones, which really >do the same thing. You would think that authors would just keep working >to make one vi clone the standard and highly convenient to use so as >to attract more users. In actuality, all they are doing is solving the >same problem over and over. </rant>
Vi clones have a long history, and I think that elvis was available long before vim (the first time I would ever even think of using a DOS box was about 1990 when I found elvis and perl that ran on DOS). If there weren't multiple choices, we would still be stuck with elvis. I doubt that the target audience for the Wal-Mart Lindows box would know the difference between vi, elvis, and vim. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Guns are no more responsible for killing people than the spoon is responsible for making Rosie O'Donnell fat.'' _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
