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From: clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz>
Date: 1 Jun 91 11:01:17 GMT
References: <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM>
Organization: The Cave MegaBBS, Public Access Usenet, Wellington, NZ
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In article <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>I run on 4 or 5 different operating systems. VI is on all of them
>(including VMS as of today). I use VI on all of them so I only have to
>remember one editor.

I use vi on here because I don't have time to learn YABTE (Yet Another
Bloody Text Editor, in my case emacs). Its taken me two years to become
confident in using vi, and I'm not about to trash that effort lightly...

On Dos systems, I use Q-Edit. Its brilliant. I'll even get my shareware
registration cheque sent off one day, I promise.

Hint: it is repugnant, but in your own best interests to learn edlin.
You never know when you will be confronted with a box containing a nice
new PC and nothing on it apart from the standard DOS utils. Beats having
to retype an entire config.sys or autoexec by using COPY CON: when you
are debugging and setting the system up...

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