'vi' is driving me crazy

[Michael Hipp]

A. Khattri wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>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.
> 
> 
> Rubbish - learn it or use something else. Noone is saying you must use vi.
> But dont expect those of us that use vi to be swayed by anything you have
> to say about its faults. All software has faults - some people are not
> bothered by them and others are. You wanna change it, go write something
> better.

I *have* learned it. Course, if you actually read my messages you'd know 
that.

There was no attempt in any message I sent to attempt to sway anyone to 
move away from vi. Course, if you actually read my messages you'd know 
that. I don't care whether I sway anyone or not. I never considered 
doing that, unlike you.

What I was attempting to do is explain that there *are* such things as 
"standard" keystrokes for editors. That there is value in such. And I'd 
like to find an editor that allowed me to continue to use them from the 
command line.

And others, unlike you, provided helpful suggestions in the form of 
editors to try.

You, on the other hand, just prefer to continually insinuate that I'm 
just to dumb, lazy or lame to learn to love vi.

>>The arguments for vi sound frighteningly like those for gentoo.
> 
> Another silly comment.

No. It's a factually correct comment.

Michael