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2009/10/4 Jesús Guerrero <i92guboj@×××××.es>: |
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> On Sun, 4 Oct 2009 01:22:47 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards |
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> <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 2009-10-03, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> On 2 Oct 2009, at 17:16, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>>>> ... |
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>>>> I don't like nano much either -- I find it rather clumsy, but |
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>>>> at least it seems to be "safe". It doesn't trash my file every |
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>>>> 30 seconds when I start typing content while in command mode. |
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>>>> Honestly -- I've used vi infrequently but regularly (probably |
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>>>> several times a month) for decades, and my brain just doesn't |
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>>>> work the way vi does. |
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>>> |
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>>> What editor do you prefer, then? |
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>> |
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>> I'm an emacs guy. I've been using emacs (or various clones |
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>> such as jove and jed) for 25 years now. |
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>> |
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>>> IIRC when I was at uni (c 2000) one of the TA's suggested Joe |
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>>> as an alternative to the traditional Unix editors. I have been |
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>>> making a little effort in the last year or two to come to |
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>>> grips with vi or vim, and am starting to prefer it, but ISTM |
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>>> that the problem with traditional Unix editors (i.e. vi & |
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>>> emacs) is that they depend upon learning obscure keyboard |
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>>> shortcuts. |
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>> |
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>> I don't have any problem learning keystrokes. I do have |
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>> problems with vi's modality. |
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> That's just one of the things I dislike about vi and all the vi clones out |
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> there. To me it is like the difference between edit to live and live to |
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> edit. It's a good editor and I respect people who like and use vi, but I |
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> refuse to use it unless there's absolutely no other option. |
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I've been using vi (or vim, where available) for a few years, and I |
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really like some of the features. What I like most is the double mode |
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(command and edit). I find it really easy to use and saves me a lot of |
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time. But I'm pretty sure that's just because I didn't bother learning |
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any other editor (like emacs), and vi can be found at almost ALL linux |
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distros I've come across in the last few years... |
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It's a matter of taste. Some may argue about that (completely |
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pointless), and that just proves that's useless. You like it, you use |
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it, advocate it, but never impose it. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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