HAHA Nice. I personally don't like VI anyway - for general text editing I use nano (quiet you >< I KNOW nano lacks most of the features of ANY other text editor...)...much less to remember and better interface, and I'm usually not editing 500 page documents at the command line :)
<br><br>The quote is just one that I saw on some linux site or another and found funny...and thought it fit in well with the conversation :)<br><br>I do appreciate the history though, I didn't know that!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ed Allen</b> <<a href="mailto:era@jimani.com">era@jimani.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Nathan Cerny wrote:<br>><br>> "Real Men use VI."<br><br><Geezer mode><br>vi is a line oriented editor 'ex' with a screen update interface tacked<br>on the front as the vi-mode of the original editor 'ex'.
<br><br>'ex' stands for "EXpanded" because the students at Berkley expanded the<br>AT&T editor 'ed' with more commands and a more consistent syntax.<br><br>Bill Joy, one of the original Sun founders, added the screen updating
<br>code and switched to "raw mode", meaning that each keypress is sent to<br>the computer as you type instead of waiting till the ENTER key is pressed.<br><br>So much history for such a short thought as...<br><br>
Intel once supplied a charater oriented editor called 'speed' as part of<br>their Isis development system which I once used to do something I doubt<br>'vi' can be coerced into without major programming effort.
<br><br>I captured a hex dump, similar to 'od -x', to a file and then used 'speed'<br>on that file to produce assemly language statements to replicate the 4K<br>byte ROM as as an "include file" of our standard build.
<br><br>All of this is meant to point out that even if you have a favorite editor<br>it might fall miserably short on a particular task. If the person you<br>are offending knows just one of those imbalances then you could wind up
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