Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!lll-winken!aunro!alberta!mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA!Al_Dunbar From: userAKDU@mts.ucs.UAlberta.CA (Al Dunbar) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 91 20:01:55 GMT References: <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> Organization: MTS Univ of Alberta Lines: 32 In article <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz>, clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes: >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. Ditto to that, QEDIT is brilliant. > >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... > I usually try to have a copy of TED.COM with me at (almost) all times for just such emergencies. Not as fully featured as QEDIT, but for quick patches to CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and other .BAT files it is great. -------------------+------------------------------------------- Al Dunbar | Edmonton, Alberta | Disclaimer: "not much better than CANADA | datclaimer" -------------------+-------------------------------------------