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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi bashing
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Date: 15 Nov 89 23:27:47 GMT
References: <1989Nov14.223604.17418@cs.eur.nl> <1989Nov15.202718.12762@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1989Nov15.202718.12762@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes:
|The problem with using vi is not LEARNING it, it is using it. LEarning
|is easy. Using is impossible: its command structure is broken,
|hopeless beyond any hope of repair. Consider this: start typing
|in something (after hitting "i" of course) then step mout for a Coke. 
|Come back: your cursor is in the middle of the page. Are you in 
|insert mode or not? Start typing - DAMMIT - oops, I forgot that
|I really DID hit escape before going for that Coke. Utter mess
|ensues.

Well, if your vendor is too inconsiderate to add the "show insert"
option (which I possess but disdain using -- I always seem to know
where I am), and you're too dumb to know to type ESCAPE when you
forget where you are, then you deserve anything you get.  

Note the followup line and take the religious flames elsewhere.
Some people enjoy the constructive, educational discussions that 
take place in this newsgroup.  

--tom


    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
		 "EMACS belongs in <sys/errno.h>: Editor too big!"