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From: rshwake@rsxtech.atww.org (Raymond N Shwake)
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Message-ID: <E60E7I.LD2@rsxtech.atww.org>
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 14:42:53 GMT
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JYoungman@vggas.com (James Youngman) writes:
>In article <5ekc5h$clm@halon.vggas.com>, JYoungman@vggas.com says...
>>
>>In article <330c6276.13111256@news.direct.ca>, glend@direct.ca says...
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>>>Have we already forgotten edlin?
>>
>>EDLIN was an ex(1) clone -- ish. Guess what editor vi(1) is built upon?
>>Right!
>...or maybe I'm thinking of ed(1)...
ed(1) was the first UNIX editor I tried, if only because it was
discussed earlier in the Thomas and Yates book I was reading back in '83.
(Aside: Even ed is a world better than EDLIN!) A few weeks later my class
instructor gave me the old "You really ought to learn vi" push, which I did
shortly thereafter, and have never looked back.
By '87, when I bought my first serious ('286) PC, I picked up a
copy of Word Perfect 4.2, at the time the recommended DOS WP package. I
got so fed up with what I could *not* do - and that was so easy with vi -
that I nearly tossed it in the trash.
OK, so now I occasionally use WP Win 6.1 or Word, but I've taken
to carrying a DOS version of VI on my utilities disk when I do desktop
troubleshooting.