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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: vi editor
Message-ID: <1940@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 02:32:26 GMT
References: <24788@beta.lanl.gov> <554@megatek.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
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In article <554@megatek.UUCP> hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
<From article <24788@beta.lanl.gov>, by pt@beta.lanl.gov (Paul A. Thiessen):
<> I know it has been mentioned before, but can someone please tell me where to
<> get a good VI editor for the PC?
<        ^^^^
<
<Good editor and VI in the same breath are oxymoronic.  Why not take the
<time to learn a REAL editor on which is made for the PC?  They are so
<much better than VI, that you will be surprised how you lived with
<VI for so long.  VI was hot shit when yoiu could only guarantee a
<serial terminal with alphabet and control keys, but in these days of
<extended keyboards and direct video access on the PC, using VI is a
<bit wierd.

That may be true, but when one uses VI on the UNIX machine at work, it is
just a little easier, mentally, to use the same editor on my 386 PC.  I know
so many different programs now, that every little bit of commonality is a plus.
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