Path: utzoo!censor!becker!geac!jtsv16!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!sdcc6!ir239 From: ir239@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (ir239) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: vi editor enhancement request Keywords: vi display emacs Message-ID: <5189@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> Date: 17 Nov 89 08:27:27 GMT References: <456@tron.UUCP> <5530@ethz-inf.UUCP> <20668@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <15948@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <7008@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: ir239@sdcc6.ucsd.edu () Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 35 In article <7008@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dstewart@fas.ri.cmu.edu (David B Stewart) writes: > >But Don't start telling me all the advantages, I'm sure I've heard >them all from my emacs-fanatic office mate). Any and every 'vi' user has had at least one of these. Oh well, to each his own. >The funniest thing is that when my office mate was forced to install >a new system, he had to learn 'vi' just to be able to set up the system >and install Emacs. So much for Emacs being "universal"! Imagine how much fun he'd have if he couldn't mount his /usr directory -- it's happened, don't laugh. No 'emacs', no 'vi', no 'ex'. THEN he get's to learn 'ed', so he can install 'vi', to ease the pain of installing the "universal" 'emacs'. For the record, I use the available editor with which I am most comfortable. On most systems this is 'vi', but it's not always there. Some "hard-cores" think everyone should start with 'ed' -- so they better understand regular expressions. Some "innovationists" think every new editor should become the de facto standard. Who cares? You can make 'emacs' work like 'vi' and you can "doll-up" 'vi' to look like 'emacs' -- if you know the right tricks. Why bother? Now, if you want to discuss versions of Rogue, or the relative merits of Rogue vs. Hack . . . #include Geoffrey R. Walton ir239@sdcc6.ucsd.edu <--for now; new net address under construction a guest of, but no longer affiliated with, the Dept. of Literature Never deny an idiot another opportunity to prove it.