'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>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.

I was impressed with the spelling ability of University of California Santa
Cruz undergraduates when I saw ``psilocybin'' spelled correctly in grafitti
in a men's room there.

Bill
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