Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!convex.COM
From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: vi mastery
Message-ID: <111542@convex.convex.com>
Date: 16 Dec 90 22:55:05 GMT
Sender: news@convex.com
Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX
Lines: 41


You all know the "UNIX Hierarchy" posted now and then?  I've been
working on the vi parts, and have come up with these:

1   beginner		- has yet to learn the basics of vi
			- still looking for wordstar
			- has to go for help to get out of vi

2   novice		- knows how to exit vi
			- hasn't figured out how to make substitutions
			- tries to enter text while in edit mode

3   user		- uses vi for simple jobs, but sub-optimally
			- has heard of regular-expressions but never seen one.
			- wonders why people like this damn thing so much

4   knowledgeable user  - is beginning to use regexps in substitutions
			- uses :e and :n to switch files

5   expert		- uses simple macros in vi
			- uses tags to navigate large programs

6   hacker		- uses undocumented features of vi
			- invokes vi with startup commands "vi +xyzzy file"

7   guru		- uses macros that generate and execute their own code
			- has as many vi macros as shell aliases

8   wizard		- has turned vi into a syntax-directed editor 
           		- emulates emacs in vi

9   demigod		- wrote or made major modifications to vi 


Anybody else got other candidates?  

--tom
--
Tom Christiansen		tchrist@convex.com	convex!tchrist
"With a kernel dive, all things are possible, but it sure makes it hard
 to look at yourself in the mirror the next morning."  -me