'vi' is driving me crazy

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 07:31:14PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 31 lines to write:
; dep wrote:
; >quoth Net Llama!:
; >
; >| Actually, i was thinking this sounds alot like the classic vi vs.
; >| emacs flame war, except that its just vi versus everything else.
; >
; >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.
; 
; dep, you are a man among men! I had been resisting all along admitting that 
; something akin to dos edit would do just fine. I just didn't have the 
; courage to face the flame war that would fall from the skies like brimstone.

;-) 

DOS' "edit" was fine with me. 

; My first experience with Linux (RH5.2 IIRC) I remember being *absolutely, 
; positively FLABBERGASTED* that you couldn't simply type, at any command 
; prompt, 'edit filename' and end up with something that a reasonably savvy 
; power user could navigate.
; 
; I haven't gotten over that experience.

Evidently.

Kurt
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