Real Time UNIX (was: Re: How do you tell a wizard?)

[Bill Pechter <pechter>]

In article <2808 at convex.UUCP>, thurlow at convex.com (Robert Thurlow) writes:
> doug at herbert.uucp (Doug Phillipson 5-0134) writes:
> >People say that vi is expert friendly but it is no harder to learn 
> >than WordPerfect.

Word Perfect is one of the hardest PC editors to learn.  It's certainly
a bad example if you're trying to prove your point.

> 
> I use 'vi' daily, and while I won't be without it and don't care much
> for most Emacsen, I'll never say 'vi' is easy to learn.  I've just
> watched too many people struggle with it.  It's not so bad if you have
> a good model of what an editor does, and just need to pick up the ways
> THIS editor does things, but it's a fright to a novice.  Of course, it
> *is* a programmers editor ...
> 
> I'd love an inteface more like WPS on the old PDP-8 - it worked much
> better.  EDT and LSE were one of the easier things to pick up when I
> did a VAX/VMS project awhile ago ...
> 

Agreed.  WordStar, EDT and Ked fall short on some things -- but all
are easier to learn than vi.  I'm going to get Small-EDT up on
my Unix boxes as soon as I can get the code moved from MS-DOS.

The one good thing about vi is (like edlin on MS-DOS) is it's a standard
across the Unix arena and it will let you work immediately on any
machine running Unix.




Bill
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