Path: vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!uunet!in1.uu.net!news1.digital.com!decwrl!waikato!comp.vuw.ac.nz!actrix.gen.nz!meanmach!ALIEN From: ALIEN@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz (Ross Smith) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The UNIX-Haters' Handbook? (was Re: Who are the most obnoxious computer groupies?) Message-ID: <0123dht5f@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 03:35:01 NZL References: <3ubfqu$clj@solutions.solon.com> <3uee5j$1hgk@ferrari.geac.co.nz> <3uguu9$9m7@lace.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: ALIEN@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz Lines: 35 X-Newsreader: Alamito Mail and News Manager (V1.2.1) (unregistered) Matthew Crosby wrote: >In article , >Loren Petrich wrote: >> >> In my experience, vi is the absolute worst full-screen >>(character-mode GUI) text editor I have *ever* used. >> [ and so on in the anti-vi mode ... ] > >vi has the fastest, most efficient keybindings around. > [ and so on in the pro-vi mode ... ] Harley Hahn's book _Unix Unbound_ (which I recommend, BTW, to anyone learning Unix) has chapters on vi and emacs. The vi chapter contains the following paragraph: HINT: If you are learning vi and you become temporarily discouraged, take a break and try a little emacs. emacs will seem so complex and impossible that you will feel a lot better about using vi. While the emacs chapter contains this one: HINT: If you are learning emacs and you become temporarily discouraged, take a break and try a little vi. vi will seem so complex and impossible that you will feel a lot better about using emacs. Says it all really, doesn't it? :-) -- ..... Ross Smith (Wellington, NZ) ..... alien@meanmach.actrix.gen.nz ..... "Look -- there must be an easier way to world conquest than dealing with actors and marketing people." -- Neil Gaiman