On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Richard A Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 06:54 -0600, Stuart Jansen wrote: >> The biggest advantage to learning Vi is it's the only editor guaranteed >> to always be installed on every *nix box. You should at least know the >> basics. As long as you're learning the basics, you might as well learn >> what makes Vim so magical that people make such a big deal about it. > > I completely agree with Stuart here, you should at least know the basics > of Vim, and heaven forbid plain old Vi when your working on a really old > *nix box.
If you are working on unixes boxes so old they can't run emacs, it's time to look for a new job. Emacs was bloated 15 years ago, but it has stayed the same size and is now fast and svelte compared to most software today. The only vi command sequence you need to know is: ESC :q! Emacs keyboard shortcuts are everywhere, even Macs let's you move the cursor around text edit windows using emacs commands. If you want a terminal-only emacs (you know, like the only choice you get with vi), use emacs -nw. In fact, alias vi='emacs -nw' for a good time. :-) Bryan P.S. I know, I know, gvim gives you a GUI. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
