Date: 23 Jun 99 04:19:24 PDT From: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> To: chris@calldei.com, Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Re: vi(1) is for whimps] Message-ID: <19990623111924.15176.qmail@www0x.netaddress.usa.net>
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Chris Costello <chris@calldei.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999, Jesus Monroy wrote: > > vi(1) is for whimps > > http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/1986/viforwhimps.html > = > Well, you should've posted that to -chat... > = > Second, there are other things people use vi for. You can't > add a sentence to a paragraph with cat as easily as you could > with vi, such as: > = > So as I headed to the bakery to get some new bread, I decided > to stop at the newspaper stand and pick up the sunday paper. > = > So as I headed to the bakery to get some new, delicious white > bread, I decided to stop at the newspaper stand to pick up the > Sunday edition of the Houston Chronicle. > = > vi is for people who want to get things done the right way > with a standard tool that is meant for editing files. > = > If you want to be pedantic, you shouldn't use 'cat' at all for > editing files! cat is meant to catenate two or more files to > stdout. > = > Try ed. > = bologna, the example you gave simple point out that you didn't think about what you wanted to do in the first place. Hence, a rewrite was needed. So throw it out, don't hack it. cat(1) works fine, I write all my perl(1) scripts this way. PS:dont' fall for the bait. --- "I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, = pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml ____________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=3D= 1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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