'vi' is driving me crazy

[Leon A. Goldstein]

dep wrote:

> it would be awfully nice if there were an editor very much like the dos
> edit. as more people use linux, and until the configuration tools
> become infallible, the need for a console text editor that requires
> *no* knowledge, that is entirely obvious, becomes even greater.
> sometimes a wheel is round for a reason.
>
> such an editor is not needed by vi masters, even as edit was not needed
> by those at home with copy con.
>

MC (Mdnight Commander)?   I learned to treasure this little gem when I
began Linuxing with SuSE 6.1; I had to edit a number of configuration
files before I could startx and run KDE.
I've been playing with FreeBSD  while waiting for the Libranet 3 beta
and ran into the same thing as with SuSE 6 - need to edit config files
at the CLI.  I read man vi and gagged; why couldn't the so and so's have
used WordStar commands?  Fortunately, FreeBSD installs a simple CLI text
editor - ee (easy editor) which is described exactly by its name.
However, I can see programmers would need the sort of heavy duty search
and replace tools vi offers.

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Leon A. Goldstein

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