Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-16 Thread Vic
I like to use both (commandline and gui) who says you can't serve 2 masters :) When the gui skrooze up, I go in under the commandline and kick it in the butt with a kill command. On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: It seems everyone has put their 2 cents in so why not me? 2 cents While my

Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Mallard
Thanks, it worked! I put that line in /etc/bashrc at the end, it seemed to make more sense to me since it is the main bash set up file for the system. It's easier for me to remember where it is. I tried typing it in at a shell prompt and it worked OK till I exited the console, so it needs to be

Re: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Jason Pierce
RYou could include a shell script with every distro called R"run-this-for-a-total-geek-system.sh", make it remove X, KDE and all GUI Rstuff and install the latest version of vim (so they have all the Rfeatures available, wouldn't want even one left out, it has to do You got that backwards.

Re: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Michael R. Batchelor
One person wrote: Some people missed the points I was making and now I know why Linux is going to have problems as long as the people who write programs for it don't drop this geeky attitude. And another wrote: But, if you don't get them to learn, then they will always need a tech-support

RE: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Fredrik Nilsson
Of Mallard Sent: den 15 augusti 2000 16:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Rial Juan Subject: Re [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT? Thanks, it worked! I put that line in /etc/bashrc at the end, it seemed to make more sense to me since it is the main bash set

Re: [expert] Vi/Vim - The editor from HELL! How do I set thedefault editor so I can TRASH IT?

2000-08-15 Thread Ron Marriage
It seems everyone has put their 2 cents in so why not me? 2 cents While my favorite editor is emacs, I have to say that anyone that considers themselves an expert owes it to themselves to learn vi(m). There are times when only it will do the job, partly because it might be the only editor