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Re: Using Vi in the 7.0 Workbench [message #57161 is a reply to message #57099]

Tue, 04 December 2007 15:00

Vince Hradil
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Registered: December 1999

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On Dec 4, 3:49 pm, Ed Hyer <ejh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 5:28 am, James Kuyper <jameskuy...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> Haje Korth wrote:
>>> Scott,
>>> I don't get it. Isn't vi that entirely user unfriendly editor form the unix
>>> side where I have to hit "i" before I can even start inserting any text in
>>> my document? I thought we are trying to get away from that toward more
>>> usable terrain?
>
>> Yes, vi is ancient, and has a horrific learning curve, and I would not
>> recommend it new users. However, some of us have already climbed that
>> learning curve, and I can do things with vi that are excessively
>> difficult to do in any other editor I'm familiar with. As long as the
>> viPlugin is an option, not mandatory, I think there's at least a few
>> people like me who would appreciate having that option.
>
> Six cheers for vi! Celebrate by taking an American-style date and
> feeding it to IDL as a julian day:
> :s/\(\[0-9]\{2\}\)[-\/.](\[0-9]\{2\}\)[-\/.](\[0-9]\{2\}\)/
> julday(\1,\2,1900+\3,0,0,0)/
>
> Will eclipse+vi tempt me away from emacs+viper+idlwave? A tantalizing
> possibility!

Ooooh - vi IN emacs. Now there's a scary thought 8^{

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