[OT] Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How doIsetthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-20 Thread Tom Massey
Mallard wrote: You need to READ SOME MANUALS to be able to program a Mac. You may have to LEARN SOMETHING, and would probably have to spend as many hours as it takes to learn "vi". I'm always somewhat amused by Neal Stephenson's "In the Beginning was the Command Line", when he writes of the

Re: [OT] Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How doIsetthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-20 Thread Jim Reimer
Tom Massey wrote: Mallard wrote: snip I think its all a way for geeks to keep their day jobs. make the exec's think you are worth something because you know some cryptic commands you can type in. The more crap you remember, the more you move up the geek ladder. Why do people hang

Re: [OT] Re: Re Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How doIsetthedefault editor soI can TRASH IT?

2000-08-20 Thread ibi
I never saw a CL until I met the penguin. It's the best thing that ever happened. Because of a video card conflict I couldn't get into KDE to configure KPPP to connect to the net-but if learned I don't have to. It doesn't matter. I did it with CL. It's just one more tool winflop doesn't offer.