Re: Will the real vi please stand up?
On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, mike horansky wrote:
> > It is generally agreed that any Unix user should be able to use
> > vi, regardless of which editor he prefers to use regularly.
> It is generally agreed in the computing mainstream that that kind of
> assumption willkeep unix out of the hands of the common
> computer-user. Of course, some unix gurus actually want this.
The first editor I learned under Unix was vi, and God I *was* a
newbie. The right way to do it is teaching everyone the Mighty ed!
The good thing about ed is that it works under *every* terminal. Vi
works under most of them. If you want to use Emacs, you'd better find
a terminal which handles Meta correctly and has Del in the canonical
place (above Ret or something like that). Better yet, find a good X
terminal (to get those nice menus). I just love compatibility.
> Assuming that the Debian folks don't have this agenda, and assuming
> that there isn't room for two editors, keeping ae on the base disks
> is a good idea. Pico, minus the line-wrapping, would be even easier
> to use, but I see it's about 6 times bigger.
BTW why ed is bigger than ae? That's really weird.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23656 Nov 13 20:32 /bin/ae*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 68300 Jan 31 01:45 /bin/ed*
Vadik.
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abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was
the last time you needed one? -- Tom Cargil, C++ Journal, Fall 1990.
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