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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news2.digex.net!digex.net!not-for-mail From: cobrien@access1.digex.net (Cary B. O'Brien) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: Betting on Unix -- it has ED! Date: 24 Feb 1997 13:53:41 -0500 Organization: Express Access Online Communications USA: 800-969-9090 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <5eso3l$eqv@access1.digex.net> References: <5d3sr2$44n@nntp1.best.com> <330B2333.38B6@to.me.please> <5ehglc$lef@innocence.interface-business.de> <330C30C0.2FA@visigenic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: access1.digex.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:160847 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2601 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:54459 comp.os.os2.advocacy:269630 In article <330C30C0.2FA@visigenic.com>, Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> wrote: >J Wunsch wrote: >> >> "Terje A. Bergesen" <no.email@to.me.please> wrote: >> >> > Or even vi, the most simple, yet incredible powerful editor there is. >> > Microsoft has *never* created an editor with anything remotely like >> > the usability and power of vi! >> >> You are probably right with some of your statements, but you err with >> one: vi is everything else than ``most simple''. (No, you don't need >> to explain me vi in your followup. I'm using it, as well as one or >> two other editors.) > >I thought vi was the ultimate evil in the universe until I realized that >unlike just about anything else I could count on vi being present >whenever >installed a new unix system. And after I got a short readme on it, I'm >pretty comfortable with it. Its ok for quick editing jobs. Once I >figured >out the basics, like how to search, go to the top and bottom of the >buffer, >and do simple cuts and pastes, its no big deal. I still prefer to use >emacs >when I do my major code building and whatnot though. I'm glad to have vi everywhere, but for the really short fixes I use ed. Really. On fast machines, I use emacs for big things and ed for little things. On slow machines, its emacs for big things, vi for sysadm, and ed for the quick stuff. Honest. Ed fixes typos faster than ANYTHING! -- cary