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From: jka@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jay Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: Re^2: vi (vs VMS/EDT)
Message-ID: <8940001@hpfcso.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Nov 89 00:22:55 GMT
References: <48360@bbn.COM>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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>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.


This man's problem isn't that he hasn't learned vi, its that he drinks
COKE -- gross, give me a break.  Pepsi is far superior to Coke.

- Jay
  "Still workin' on a 'M-x get-me-a-pepsi' command for emacs."