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From: GBOPOLY1@NUSVM.BITNET (fclim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: '' in pathnames
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Date: 29 Jun 89 09:41:05 GMT
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>From: conliffe%caen.engin.umich.edu%mailrus.uucp@csd4.milw.wisc.edu  (Drryl C.
> Conliffe)
>Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
>Message-Id: <441bc082.b11a@falcon.engin.umich.edu>
>References: <8906281243.AA02709@umix.cc.umich.edu>
>
>I agree, Scott, that some of the things an Apollo workstation brings
>to a user are better than "standard stuff".  For example, I snicker
>at the "I don't have time to learn the DM editor" comments;
>it's so darn intuitive that I wonder what could be easier than
>hitting the LINE DEL key to delete the line, typing characters
>in input mode where you place the cursor, or overstriking by hitting
>SHIFT-INS and having a visual marker of the input mode?

SHIFT-INS isn't intuitive -- I didn't know about it until now.
I like vi because ya don't have to move too much.

>Or, have you ever seen someone introduced to an Apollo by someone
>who knows only vi read a file?  He vi's it.  I love the look
>on that users face when I point to the file name on a pad and open
>it.

How about someone who knows only Aegis and have never seen other Unix
boxes?  He'll look everywhere for that @#$%&*))(  EDIT key when he comes
upon a Sun.

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