'vi' is driving me crazy

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:23:23PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 22 lines to write:
; 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. 

Really? Hmm. I just thought they were arbitrarily obtuse. ;-)

; I'm glad they know what's best for me.

They also provided a way to remap them. vi (and ex and ed) were created a
long time ago when the users were accustomed to having fewer choices
vis-a-vis editors. 

I suppose the point the really needs to be made is that, like it or not,
accept it or not, when it comes to *nix text editors, vi is the standard.

Kurt
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