[SunRescue] Should an editor require you to think?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

I'd imagine that these days people still run vi and get a screen full of
tildes.  On the other hand, many people run emacs and a window pops of
with mouseable menus, and while slower than the keyboard, all most
everything can be done with a mouse.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 tadghe at surf-ici.com wrote:

> > 
> > vi is extremely non intuitive. If I simply type vi at the command prompt
> > I recieve a screen full of tildes. There is no chance in hell I can use
> > this without looking at help files or man pages.
> 
> Interestingly Enough, Ease of use is why I chose vi (actually vim) rather than 
> EMACS as my editor/enviroment of choice.  While remembering ^[:w comes pretty 
> easy as do things like ^[q!, the quirks and keystrokes of Emacs and the like 
> seem counter productive, IMHO. But I promise I'm *really* not trying to start 
> another Emacs vs vi war :-).  My current quest for a better vi replacement that 
> will run on wintel/sun/*nix that does syntax highlighting, and can handle files 
> over a FTP link :-).
> 
> 
> Christopher
> 
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