From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 8 23:13:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from charlie.callgtn.com (charlie.callgtn.com [209.47.57.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6323F37B401 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:13:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erothwell@callgtn.com) Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 02:13:43 -0400 Message-Id: <200106090213.AA230162716@charlie.callgtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Erik Rothwell" Reply-To: X-Sender: To: Jason Halbert , dannyman Cc: Subject: Re: vi X-Mailer: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Vim, though not installed by default, is a very good alternative to vi... it's got all of vi's functionality + more (syntax colour-coding for scripts & such, for instance) with a much cleanup interface. It's definitely a few degress more intuitive than regular vi as well as being full-featured & robust. Erik :) ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: dannyman Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:00:43 -0700 >On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 12:37:21AM -0500, Jason Halbert wrote: >> Hi All: >> >> Why is vi the default choice of editor for UNIX and how did it become >> the default? I find it cumbersome. >> >> I'm just curious of it's advantages over joe or pico or any of the >> others. > >It comes installed with the base system. > >I think cumbersome is the wrong adjective. Perhaps you mean >"frustrating?" > >Anyways, I tend to figure ee might be a better choice for default >editor. It is more intuitive to use than vi. > >-danny > >-- >http://dannyman.toldme.com/ > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message