'vi' is driving me crazy

[Net Llama!]

On 12/27/2004 04:02 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
>>Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:36 -0600, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>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".
>>>
>>>
>>>This was one reason they were not made intuitive. The authors felt you
>>>were best remembering the commands. 
>>
>>I'm glad they know what's best for me.
> 
> 
> Bill Joy was at Berkeley when he wrote vi originally.  Perhaps the Berkeley
> politics rubbed off on him, after all, they do seem to think that they
> should be telling everybody how to live and what's good for them.

Nevermind the LSD that also was invented at Berkeley.



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