'vi' is driving me crazy

Kurt Wall kwall
Mon Dec 27 20:47:17 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:38:43PM -0800, Net Llama! took 25 lines to write:
; On 12/27/2004 03:01 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
; >On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:25 -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
; >
; >
; >>right, and vi has been completely unmaintained since that time?
; >
; >
; >Yikes. Are you implying that the commands be changed? TG for open
; >source. As in, I'll keep my version thank you very much!
; 
; Not at all, but the excuse that it was set this way a long time ago, and 
; that's why it shouldn't be changed is silly.

Why should it be changed? Because it isn't easy to learn or isn't
intuitive? Please. The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything
else is learned.

Kurt
-- 
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."


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