'vi' is driving me crazy

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 05:56:23PM -0600, Michael Hipp took 20 lines to write:
; Collins Richey wrote:
; 
; >3. If you don't like vi(m), try something else, and less whining about it.
; 
; Problem is, it doesn't appear there *is* anything else.

Not that's less arcane, no. The command sets are different.

; And there was no whining until the messages started to appear that said, 
; in essence, you're stoopid if you don't like vi and you should spend the 
; next 22 years learning to love it.

Heavens. What I thought was "stoopid" was complaining about vi's failure
to adhere to some standard that emerged after vi was written and
after millions of peole had learned the existing (utterly obscure)
interface and command set. I didn't think it stupid that you don't like
vi. I *do* think you need to learn to use it because it's an extremely
common tool.

; The arguments for vi sound frighteningly like those for gentoo.

What's a mailing list with out a vi versus all the other editors religious
war? :-) I wouldn't take it personally. I will note that people express
contrary opinions and see those _opinions_ savaged here all the time. It's
much less common for the person expressing those opinions to get savaged.
It happens, of course, but I don't think it happened here. I could have
missed the odd post in this thread, of course.

Kurt
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