vi Alternative Required

Simon Brown simon at castle.ed.ac.uk
Fri Dec 7 03:38:33 AEST 1990


In article <1616 at ukpoit.co.uk> ian at ukpoit.co.uk (Ian Spare) writes:
>
>Some of our users/developers have formed a lynch party and came into the
>tech support area this morining spoiling for a fight !!! They ( not me ! )
>feel that vi is hopeless and would like a better editor ( their words ).
>
>I think the problem is that they find productivity plumments when using 
>3 editors , namely vi , wordstar and IBM ISPF editors.

silly remark #1:
    yeah, it's probably best to try to stick to one at a time. maybe two...

>
>What I think I need is a new editor for them , these are the requirements :
>         2 . Look and feel the same as either Wordstar or IBM ISPF editor.

silly remark #2:
    but didn't they just say that these are the other ones that make their 
    productivity plummet? maybe they meant "look and feel *not* the same as
    ..." - a rather more likely request, i can't help thinking :-)
   
	--Simon

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Simon Brown                                                   simon at meiko.co.uk
Meiko Scientific Ltd.                                         simon at uk.ac.ed
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