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Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes: |
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> Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> and my brain just doesn't |
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>> work the way vi does. |
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> I'm with you Grant. Mine doesn't work that way either. |
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You guys do know that Bill Joy was lopsided drunk when he wrote the |
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bulk of vi ... right? (or so it is said by oldtimers) |
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Nobodys' brain works that way on purpose... You have to make it happen |
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with practice (or alcohol). I should know... I've been practicing for |
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12 yrs and tried the alcohol technique before becoming a teetotaller |
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some time earlier, and still a very long ways from being an adept. Or |
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even a competent for that matter. |
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But still compared to nano, even just the basic open file/ write to |
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file/ close file... is done better and easier from vi. |
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Someone mentioned being surprised to find nano the default in stage3. |
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I was surprised too. My first gentoo installs were several yrs ago |
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now so I expect it now, but it did surprise me quite a bit that first |
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time. I'd already been through the grease with vi so could do basic |
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stuff well enough by that time. |
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However, all that said... it still isn't a big deal having nano there |
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at first ... Install disks are networked right off the bat these days, |
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so its not long before you can emerge vim or emacs, you don't have to |
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put up with nano for long. |
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