'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:47 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Call me sick. But I go so far as to install vi on Windows. Sorry.

I wouldn't touch any M$ platform until I had two things, a working vi clone
(elvis) and perl.  I did manage some useful development on the early '90s
on DOS/Windows machines with these.  The MKS Toolkit also provided useful
things like a decent sort program, ksh, grep, etc.

Vim works quite nicely on Windows, even adding an ``open with vim'' to thr
right mouse button in the Windows file manager.

Bill
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