Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!mcnc!ecsvax.uncecs.edu!dukeac!wolves!ggw From: ggw@wolves.uucp (Gregory G. Woodbury) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: How do you tell a wizard? Message-ID: <1989Oct27.220632.5531@wolves.uucp> Date: 27 Oct 89 22:06:32 GMT References: <21251@adm.BRL.MIL> Reply-To: ggw@wolves.UUCP (Gregory G. Woodbury) Followup-To: comp.unix.wizards Distribution: comp.unix.wizards Organization: Wolves Den UNIX BBS Lines: 19 In article <21251@adm.BRL.MIL> (Dennis G. Rears (FSAC)) writes: >> From article <955@umb.umb.edu>, by campbell@umb.umb.edu (Jim Campbell): >>> ie: NOVICE: Calls vi vye > >> I have *never* heard *anyone* call "vi" vee-eye. Including wizards. > > Do wizards even use vi? I thought they used emacs :-). Of course some wizards use vi! Those whom eschew the baroque verbosity of the wild variants of the one true UNIX appreciate the clean and simple style of vi (despite its origins ;-) Of course, for clean and simple, not much can beat TECO ;-) ;-) -- Gregory G. Woodbury Sysop/owner Wolves Den UNIX BBS, Durham NC UUCP: ...dukcds!wolves!ggw ...dukeac!wolves!ggw [use the maps!] Domain: ggw@cds.duke.edu ggw@ac.duke.edu ggw%wolves@ac.duke.edu Phone: +1 919 493 1998 (Home) +1 919 684 6126 (Work) [The line eater is a boojum snark! ]