gharris999 wrote: > Why this devotion to vi? Just because some version of vi has been included in every unix-like OS over the past 25+ years, and it works just fine over a TTY or command line.
The more the "visual" editors require something like X-windows. Nano clearly follows the vi/vim mode, but its not much of an improvement over vi. With vi, you can go anywhere, it is always installed. I even install it on my Windows boxes. Again, one of the reasons I install the GUI for servers is that during setup, its nice to have a decent editor. I actually kinda like vi, but I started programming on a PDP-10, which used "teco" as an editor. Teco was the first that I used with the "i" for insert mode up until you enter escape, just like vi. While teco was not visual, it had an awesome macro/programming capability. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
