I learned vi under SysVr3 and SysVr4 and didn't see much difference
under Slackware/elvis. Vim does have some annoying differences but
I can't remember the specifics. Emacs with viper-mode is pretty
faithful too.
Emacs emulating vi? The only good thing about emacs is that it's easy
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently the people who generated the debian rescue disk don't agree
or the recent editor wars wouldn't have happened on this list.
The main problem
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis
(maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them.
A year ago when I was
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis
(maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to them.
A year ago when I was running
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently the people who generated the debian rescue disk don't agree
or the recent editor wars wouldn't have happened on this list.
Which of the vi
On Apr 15, Leslie Mikesell wrote
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently the people who generated the debian rescue disk don't agree
or the recent editor wars wouldn't have happened on this
On Apr 15, Robert D. Hilliard wrote
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
Apparently vi doesn't exist in Debian - vim, nvi, and elvis
(maybe others) all like to have a symlink named vi pointing to
Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
It is generally agreed in the computing mainstream that that kind of
assumption will keep unix out of the hands of the common
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
I learned vi under SysVr3 and SysVr4 and didn't see much difference
under Slackware/elvis. Vim does have some annoying differences but
I can't remember the specifics. Emacs with viper-mode is pretty
faithful too.
Emacs emulating vi? The only
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, mike horansky wrote:
It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
It is generally agreed in the computing mainstream that that kind of
assumption willkeep unix out of the hands of the
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