'vi' is driving me crazy

David Bandel david.bandel
Sat Jan 1 22:16:48 PST 2005


On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 20:07:06 -0500, Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 11:10:46AM -0800, Ken Moffat took 20 lines to write:
> > Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> >
> > >I thought that linux was all about choice and finding better ways of
> > >doing things, yet there is this intense reluctance to even question
> > >the use of vi by linux's adherents. I find the irony quite fun.
> > >
> >
> > There is this fear of the windows world encroaching on or taking over
> > the linux world.
> 
> Or perhaps just all the bad ideas from the Windows world infecting the
> Linux world.
> 

Probably why I don't like Gnome/KDE.  To me, those two unintuitive
interfaces take the worst of Windoze and transfer it to Linux.

Now back to my five open vi sessions (in 5 separate ssh logins around
the Republic of Panama) in Openbox.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
-- 
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