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From: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: e - the friendly interface to vi. version 1.1
Message-ID: <1946@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 12:30:45 EST
Article-I.D.: killer.1946
Posted: Thu Oct 29 12:30:45 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Nov-87 03:57:39 EST
References: <4912@ncoast.UUCP> <937@woton.UUCP> <1085@ur-valhalla.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.UUCP (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <1085@ur-valhalla.UUCP> badri@ur-valhalla.UUCP (Badri Lokanathan)
writes:

>  (stuff deleted)
>If taught "properly", I believe vi can be learnt in a day, since with
>less than 20 commands it is possible to perform many complex tasks.
>I am not suggesting that vi is the best editor around; however
>I think that most complaints about it such as lack of documentation are
>unfair. There is documentation for those who are willing to go to the
>trouble of finding it.

I believe it is a system administrator's responsibility to make sure that
all documentation for a system's capabilities is available to all users,
and that they BE INFORMED of its availability.

A good system administrator would also have a list of additional publications
(books, brochures, magazines) which people could obtain privately if they
are sufficiently interested. There are many good books and manuals available,
even for such "exotic" subjects as vi and n/troff, and while a system
administrator obviously will not BUY all of these for every user, he should
know about them and be able to suggest them to his users.

Anyone interested in such a list, email me - if there is sufficient interest
I will post.

Wolf Paul
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