'vi' is driving me crazy

Collins Richey crichey
Mon Dec 27 23:15:14 PST 2004


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:40:21 -0600, Michael Hipp <Michael at hipp.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > Correct me if I am wrong, but you seem to be looking for "the perfect
> > editor," and I don't think such a beast exists. There are decent
> > editors (nano, vi. and maybe others) for the console environment, and
> > there are lots of choices for the X environment. Your challenge, IMO,
> > is to find the least undesirable editor and move on, or ???.
> 
> Problem is I've been spoiled by http://www.TextPad.com which is a wonderful,
> but hoplessly windows-only text editor.
> 

Maybe you could appeal to the authors to produce a version for a real
operating system. Of course you might want to phrase your request with
a little more diplomacy.

Just one of my goofy opinions.

And I do love a nice long thread (79 and ticking).

-- 
 Collins


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