'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
>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.

A woman who was an early member of the Seattle Unix Group's board of
directors, and employ of Phil Hughes' company SSC (parent of Linux Journal)
later became a technical write at Microsoft.  Phil told me that she was
called in by her boss who asked what she did that made her five to six
times more productive than anybody else in their department.  ``I write
everything in vi, then import it into Word'' was that answer.

BTW:  One of SSC's early products was a vi quick reference card which she
created using whatever version of *roff was available twenty years ago.

Bill
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