'vi' is driving me crazy

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:55:46AM -0600, Michael Hipp took 39 lines to write:
; Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
; >On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 22:24, Michael Hipp wrote:
; >
; >>Can anyone recommend a character-mode programmer's editor that works a 
; >>bit more like a gui guy would expect?
; >>
; >>I'd never want to be one to complain, especially on a great day like 
; >>this, but in between playing with new toys and stuffing myself on every 
; >>manner of decadence, I'm trying to edit some moderately complex script 
; >>files (bash). But the modality of vi and the lack of "standard" 
; >>keystrokes for select, cut, copy, paste is making me looney.
; >
; >
; >How about gvim? 
; 
; Thanks. But if I'm understanding what Google turned up, gvim is just a 
; gui version of vim. And I'm already using vim since 'alias' shows this
; 
;   alias vi='vim'
; 
; If vim is "improved", I'm glad I'm not using the unimproved version.

It isn't, IMHO. Slackware offers to install vim. I decline, uninstall
Slackware's vi (elvis), and install nvi instead.

Kurt
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