'vi' is driving me crazy

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon Dec 27 17:13:53 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:06:02PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 25 lines to write:
; On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
; ...
; >I save files.  writing seems like something very different than saving. 
; > Q for quitting seems like another rare intuituve exception.  I and A 
; >are only intuitive in the vi world.
; 
; After using vi for 22 years they're intuitive, and any other editor seems
; sluggish and inefficient.

Indeed. I sometimes have to use MS Word at work. I can testify that vi-like
keystrokes most certainly do not have their intended effects in Word.

Kurt
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