Re: DON'T PANIC

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:44 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: I love vi... Likewise... Would not use anything else. Can't lear anything else... :) ET Amit Nepal writes: I love vi. I started with vi , i have never used other editors. Vi is simply

RE: DON'T PANIC

[mailto:plug-discuss-boun...@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Ed Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:17 AM To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: DON'T PANIC On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:44 PM, kitepi...@kitepilot.com kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: I love vi... Likewise... Would not use

Re: DON'T PANIC

I first learned vi back in the 80's when I worked with many forms of Unix. Of was the only consistent editor across all the BSDs, SCOs, etc. In the early-mid 90s through early 2k most of my work was windows based. I remember a Mellenium project where I was needing to change over 300 FoxPro

Re: DON'T PANIC

From: Patricia Wilson wilson.pr...@gmail.com I was exposed to vi several years ago. It made me ever so thankful for the nice people who developed emacs. Years and years ago, the Solaris boxen at college had vi, but not emacs. pico didn't cut it for anything complicated. This left me no

Re: DON'T PANIC

Same thing here - slowaris early in my unix-y years only had vi prior to finding out about sunfreeware.com, so i just got used to it. Finding vim made it that much more likeable to prefer it to today. To this day I'll find myself when using a windoze system notepad or gedit on linux still

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I was quite fortunate to have an extraordinarily good computer services department where I worked right out of college. They had emacs on the Suns and the Vaxen. I decided learning one editor beat learning two so emacs it was. Nope, wasn't as good as the VAX editor on the VAX but was a lot better

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I saw somebody use VI once, and was glad somebody wrote GEdit :). Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:

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been using vi for 22 years, never wanted to use any other editor. Richard On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I saw somebody use VI once, and was glad somebody wrote GEdit :). Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing

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I loves me my vi. My hands rarely leave the homerow for basic operations. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I saw somebody use VI once, and was glad somebody wrote GEdit :). Jim --- PLUG-discuss mailing

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Why do people use :wq! ? Haven't they heard of :x! ? No mention of ed? Wasn't there an O'rielly author who wrote an entire book in ed? Eric On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:41 PM, James Mcphee jmc...@gmail.com wrote: I loves me my vi. My hands rarely leave the homerow for basic operations. On Fri,

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Or use ZZ. Ah, ed. The WYGIWYG editor. On Aug 10, 2012 9:51 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Why do people use :wq! ? Haven't they heard of :x! ? No mention of ed? Wasn't there an O'rielly author who wrote an entire book in ed? Eric On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:41 PM, James Mcphee

Re: DON'T PANIC

I love vi. I started with vi , i have never used other editors. Vi is simply awesome/powerful and full of features *Amit K Nepal Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE) omNovia Technologies Inc. http://www.omnovia.com Amit K Nepal http://www.amitnepal.com http://www.amitnepal.com* On 8/10/2012 9:32

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I like vi.. because I've used it long enough not to hate it :) I second ed though... ed was the bomb! l wrote rexx scripts that used ed to do all the heavy lifting on Ibm mainframe. Great editor. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Eric Cope eric.c...@gmail.com wrote: Why do people use :wq! ?

Re: DON'T PANIC

I love vi... Likewise... Would not use anything else. Can't lear anything else... :) ET Amit Nepal writes: I love vi. I started with vi , i have never used other editors. Vi is simply awesome/powerful and full of features *Amit K Nepal Infrastructure Engineer (RHCE) omNovia