BCC: What do Ken and Ross use?
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>> Interesting to see that this question or the way this 
>> question is asked,
>> almost only gives positive feedbacks,
>> thereby completely ignoring the rest of the universe,
>> where editors exist for which you have to learn nothing 
>> ;-)

> Same feeling here :-)

Maybe. But it seems a fine way to handle it if the question 
asked is what is wanted to be known.
The question was not "Is vi a good editor" or "how does vi 
compare to other editors" but "is vi good enough to be worth 
the effort to learn, and how hard is it anyway". ??? <- use 
these ?'s as required.

I personally have never used vi, and have used a number of 
editors that require you to "learn nothing", at least 
relative to vi, apparently, and still use several of these. 
But, despite the complexities made apparent by the thread, 
the information on vi's capabilities and the reasons for 
using it that people have listed have been compelling 
enough to make me think that I would like to learn to use it 
"one of these days". (ie preferably tomorrow but probably it 
will be never ;-) ). I often enough wish to process lists of 
information, often file names, and my usual approach when 
the tools are inadequate, is to write a small program to 
handle the task in whatever language. It is evident from 
what has been said that most of what I do in such cases 
could be handled by a single vi line.



            Russell


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