On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: > > You mean someone wasted their time writing text editors other than vi ? > > Thank the various gods for that!!! > > This quote about vi about sums it up: > ----- > I thought it was the stupidest, most perverse and irritating thing > imaginable. I couldn't believe that people sat down to write a text > editor and came up with this. > ---- > Source: > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/a7601dc8c9af9d7d > > I've tried using vi off and on for at least 15 years. It is the > single most infuriating and annoying piece of software ever written... > well, except for MS Windows. You really have to wonder what the > developers of this masochistic editor were smoking when they sat down > and designed vi. Every time I have to use that horrible little > editor, I learn at least 4 new swear words and have to go lay down for > a while to recover. > > C.
There is one even more infuriating piece of editor ware anyone remember "Edlin" ye gads .. no that even makes "vi" look good -- SuSE Linux 10.3-Alpha2. (Linux is like a wigwam - no Gates, no Windows, and an Apache inside.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
