Some people swear by vi... Others swear at vi. List me it the latter column.
On 12/23/13 12:16 PM, Geoff Edmonson wrote:
Some people swear by vi... Others swear at vi.
List me it the latter column.
De gustibus non disputandum. :) It's old. It's built around the days of command line only operating systems (we don't need no stinking windows...), stringing commands together via pipes, redirection, and 16K of core to run both the OS and application (bank switched memory was a good thing...). It also works. Certainly not a WYSIWYG editor...more like 'You asked for it, you got it' whether what you asked for is what you wanted. But, like someone else mentioned...it's ubiquitous and if you're so inclined, consistent across all the flavor des jours [Li|U]nix systems you'll come across. Pico and its derivatives are great. So is wordstar. But, you will always (afaik) have access to VI on a linux system. (now, awk on the other hand....) -- Bryan In this world, you must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. Sent from my MacBook Pro.
Of course you could do your friends a favor and ween them off the Windows narcotic stuphe. Maybe move them to something nice like Fedora, or Centos. Which could also be used to get them acquainted with the core O/S their nodes run on. As for me, yes I've used vi (yeeeeaaarrrssss ago under Xenix and SCO Unix). And today I mostly use nano on the command line. But on my various general use Fedora boxes (including this laptop with Fedora 20) I also use the Dolphin file manager, with links to my nodes (via sftp). And I find the KWRITE text editor easy to deal with. Just my opinion. "Friends don't let friends use Windows"
I last used it 20+ years ago. Did I mention something about using Win SCP? Merry Christmas 73 Jim W7RY On 12/23/2013 9:16 AM, Geoff Edmonson wrote:
Some people swear by vi... Others swear at vi.
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