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From: glenn@welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun5.212426.17858@welch.jhu.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 91 21:24:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun05.153324.25760@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
>In article <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu> glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) writes:
>
>> I think I
>>studied the command set for about an hour or so, and I have been able to do
>>just about anything that you can possibly do with vi (which ain't much!-).
> ...
>Do you do things like substitutions that swap field positions within
>lines or upper/lower case conversions, cut and paste between files,
>or filter chunks of your buffer through external programs.  Did you
>really learn all that in an hour or did you cheat by already knowing
>how regular expressions work?

I cheated! Well ... I guess ya got me. Hard to work within a Unix environ-
ment for very long without using regular expressions.

;^)

Seems to me that Bill Joy was quoted a while back saying something to
the effect that "vi is a turd" ... some software is so bad that it falls
into the "software that only the author could love" category, and vi
seems to fall short of making even that grade!