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From: slootman@dri.nl (Paul Slootman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1089@dri500.dri.nl>
Date: 5 Jun 91 08:28:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: dri500.1089
References: <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun3.143356.26128@welch.jhu.edu>
glenn@welchlab.welch.jhu.edu (Glenn M. Mason) writes:
>In article <1991Jun01.110117.19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>>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
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>>confident in using vi, and I'm not about to trash that effort lightly...

>2 years? Are you serious?? Do you have a learning disability? If it took you
>that long to become comfortable using vi, you probably should *not* attempt
>to try anything better. I learned vi, just to be able to edit on the fly on
>machines not equipped with an emacs-like editor of some sort ... 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!-).
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Perhaps you think that because you've only studied it for about an hour or
so :-) I've used vi for about 6 years, and from time to time still
discover new features... (which, I agree, doesn't say too much about
the available documentation. That is IMHO the only serious thing wrong
with vi.)

Paul.
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