'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 12/27/2004 12:45 PM, A. Khattri wrote:
>>On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Sorry, but i've never heard anyone use the expression 'yank a line' to
>>>perform the operation that hitting Y accomplishes.  D is about the only
>>>key that seems to have a logical correspondance with its operation, and
>>>i'm convinced that was a fluke, based on all the other utterly
>>>unintuitive vi operators.
>>
>>
>>Many vi manuals, HOW-TOs and help files talk about "yanking" a line - I
>>remember it from when I learned vi from a crib sheet.
>>
>>Many versions of vi even say "yanked" at the bottom of the screen when
>>doing it.
>>
>
>My point exactly.  its a vi-ism, and isn't untuitive to someone who 
>hasn't used vi before.

On the other hand, vi is found on pretty much every *nix system on the
planet while other editors aren't.  Taking the time to learn it, and even
be comfortable with it can make life a lot easier if one has to work on
multiple systems.

There aren't all that many things to learn to do the basic things to edit
text files (which is about all the ``friendly'' editors can do -- basic
things).  The mode problem isn't a problem if one just hits the ESC key a
couple of times -- it will then be in command mode.

Bill
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