'vi' is driving me crazy

[Alan Jackson]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:44:29 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:47 -0800, Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> > On the other hand, vi is found on pretty much every *nix system on the
> > planet while other editors aren't.  Taking the time to learn it, and even
> > be comfortable with it can make life a lot easier if one has to work on
> > multiple systems.
> 
> Call me sick. But I go so far as to install vi on Windows. Sorry.

Many years ago I ran elvis on Windows 3.1, and at work I installed gvim on NT
so I could have a real editor available.

Come to think of it, I even contributed to the Ugandan orphans a few years ago.
(the father of vim, Bram Moolenaar, asks users to contribute to the Ugandan
orphan fund, giving rise to the moniker "charity-ware" for vim and gvim).

Actually there are several vim functions I dearly wish I had in things like
Word... my favorite is gq} which "tidies up" the current paragraph by adjusting
the number of words in each line.


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