Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!caip!sri-spam!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc6!ir450 From: ir450@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (ir450) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac,net.unix Subject: Re: Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac Message-ID: <2866@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU> Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 18:21:51 EDT Article-I.D.: sdcc6.2866 Posted: Fri Sep 19 18:21:51 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 20-Sep-86 20:43:57 EDT References: <1572@cbdkc1.UUCP> <1091@hoptoad.uucp> <15372@mordor.ARPA> <981@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <1279@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Reply-To: ir450@sdcc6.UUCP () Organization: Lab for Mathematics and Statistics @ UCSD Lines: 36 Xref: mnetor net.micro.mac:7101 net.unix:5556 To add to the mouse vs vi editors debate, I will tell my story. At work I use this nice SUN workstation, and I use the mouse only to switch between screens, and evry so often, I will cut and paste with it. I use only vi on this system (4.2) and I can quickly and easily produce anything I need. At home I have an Apricot running MS-DOS and GEM. It takes average 4 hours to write and perfect a simple one page letter using its mouse based editor. It takes forever to find anything in the letter, and almost that long to move through the letter. I also hate having to move my hand from the mouse to the keyboard continually. I have NEVER had ANY experience with vi removing text and doing the wierd things that the previous posters have stated, even when I was a beginner with vi. It has ALWAYS been the best editor I have used. I think the reason for this is that you can use whatever level of expertice you want. If you are a begineer with it, you just have to know how to insert, delete and save a file. With other editors I have tried to use, you must know almost everything about it, just to get started. Except of course for mouse based editors, which tell you nothing and give the begineer no useful features. Obviously, I have used the vi editor to write this followup, and I can tell you that I had no problems doing so. Brian Keves ARPA: keves%ra@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu Lab for Math and Stats UUCP: sdcsvax!ra!keves UCSD, La Jolla, CA PHONE: 619-450-6421 Any opinions expressed are my own and are not the opinions of my employer. -- Brian Keves ARPA: keves%ra@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu Lab for Math and Stats UUCP: sdcsvax!ra!keves UCSD, La Jolla, CA PHONE: 619-450-6421 Any opinions expressed are my own and are not the opinions of my employer.