'vi' is driving me crazy

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:36:13PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 26 lines to write:
; Bill Campbell wrote:
; 
; >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.
; 
; The fact that many people have - by endless repetition - memorized them 
; does not make them intuitive. "Intuitive" and "must be memorized" are 
; essentially opposite concepts. Nor is "memorizable" a synonym for 
; "standard".

At the time vi was written for UNIX, *ed* was "the standard,", which is why
vi follows the ed standard. Again, at the time, vi was a terrific
improvement over ed.

Whose "standard" keystrokes do you want to follow? MS's? Perhaps IBM's?
Maybe those from WordStar? Emacs'? This insistence on adhering to
keystroke or command standards is quaint, but based on a false premise.

Kurt
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