IMO usability is not a static concept. To me it's a great usability and speed
feature that my hands never have to leave the alphanumeric part of the
keyboard.
The outstanding contribution of vi is that it needs virtually no per-machine
configuration. It's plug and play on any keyboard and
I have successfully used flexbackup (freshmeat has it). This provides a
friendlier command line front end to afio, cpio, tar, etc.. From what I could
glean afio is a much more robust (i.e. fault tolerant) and high performance
alternative to cpio.
Hope that helps.
Steve
Mark Weaver wrote:
