'vi' is driving me crazy

[Net Llama!]

On 12/28/2004 10:36 AM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:01:50 -0800, Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>>On 12/28/2004 08:38 AM, A. Khattri wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>Of course, CTRL C would be unworkable as a copy keystroke on the
>>>command-line...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>You, on the other hand, just prefer to continually insinuate that I'm
>>>>just to dumb, lazy or lame to learn to love vi.
>>>
>>>
>>>No, we just want you to quit the whining...
>>
>>Whining?  Get off your high horse.  No one voted you $DEITY's gift to Linux.
>>
> 
> 
> Doncha just love a good flame war! 
> 
> There's been plenty of whining in this thread, and not all from one
> source. To summarize again (see approx. 50 posts earlier in the
> thread): some like vi, some don't. It's not insinuating anything to
> point out how useful vi can be. It's also not insinuating anything to
> report the obvious: vi doesn't follow the [sacred and beloved of many]
> cut and paste standards used by most gui editors.
> 
> There are plenty of high horses to go around.
> 

Sure, but until the attack above, its been a reasonably civil discourse.

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