From owner-freebsd-stable Sun May 30 18:12:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECB6A15035 for ; Sun, 30 May 1999 18:12:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20475; Sun, 30 May 1999 18:12:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199905310112.SAA20475@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Ramblings from a Newbie... In-Reply-To: from Dustin Lang at "May 29, 99 10:25:19 pm" To: dustinl@interchange.ubc.ca (Dustin Lang) Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 18:12:13 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As I recall, Dustin Lang wrote: > I have just one question, but it's not specific to FreeBSD or even > BSD. Why on earth do people use vi? I'm not trying to start a flame > war or anything, but it's just so unfriendly. Doing the install was > simple and very friendly up until I did a 'chsh' and got vi! My > editor of choice is pico, the editor that looks like pine and has > instructions on the bottom. Sure, it's simple and doesn't have all > the advanced features you might want in an editor, but for doing a > 'chsh', it's sufficient! Of course, that's just me... Well, it's all those "advanced features" that make folks use vi. Like, I word-wrapped your above paragraph, preserving the '> ' along the left edge by typing "!}fill -d". I find the thing most repugnant about windoz is the stupid editor that is embedded in every application. An editor where you have to remove your hands from the keyboard to reposition the cursor is just plain broken. The two widely used UNIX editors, vi and emacs, reward a little practice with great productivity. Not unlike UNIX itself... -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message