On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 10:11, Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 09:50, Bryan Murdock wrote: > > I'm asking this in behalf of a co-worker who uses vi. I tried to get > > him to just use emacs, but after something like 20 years of vi, he just > > couldn't make the switch :) > > Kudos to your co-worker. Have you considered that perhaps he has good > reasons for staying with vi? I suspect you are the one that needs to > switch. We will welcome you brother when you see the light. > > Of course, anyone with any sense usually means vim when they say vi. > Vanilla vi is good for quick editing, but nothing can match vim for > shear pleasure.
I thought some emacs vs. vi comments would get someone's attention :) Thanks for replying. > Sounds like this page will be good enough for him. > > http://www-vlsi.stanford.edu/~jsolomon/vim/ Cool, I'll pass this on. I know he actually was using plain vanilla vi under HP-UX (he's old-school, he thought my multi-colored code in emacs was neat-o), but I'm guessing whichever Linux distro. he's playing with has vim installed. Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
