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From: schwartz@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Dwight Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi mastery
Keywords: vi hierarchy
Message-ID: <1990Dec18.074757.10831@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 07:47:57 GMT
References: <111542@convex.convex.com>
Sender: Dwight A. Schwartz (schwartz@aries.scs.uiuc.edu)
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In article <111542@convex.convex.com> tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:
>
>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 . . .
>2   novice		- knows how to exit vi . . .
>3   user		- uses vi for simple jobs, but sub-optimally . . .
>4   knowledgeable user  - is beginning to use regexps in substitutions . . .
>5   expert		- uses simple macros in vi . . .
>6   hacker		- uses undocumented features of vi . . .
>7   guru		- uses macros that generate and execute their own code . . .
>8   wizard		- has turned vi into a syntax-directed editor  . . .
>9   demigod		- wrote or made major modifications to vi  . . .
>
>Anybody else got other candidates?  
>
Here's one last candidate which seems to follow from the collection above. 

10   Tom                 - knows enough about unix and vi to create a logical
                           hierarchy of vi users 

p.s. I think I qualify as a "knowlegeable user," since the most I know how to 
do was use a regular expression to substitute ". . ." at the end of the first 
nine categories above.

					Dwight

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