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 :)
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 :)
I do appreciate the history though, I didn't know that!
On 9/6/07, Ed Allen <era@jimani.com> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Nathan Cerny wrote:
>
> "Real Men use VI."
<Geezer mode>
vi is a line oriented editor 'ex' with a screen update interface tacked
on the front as the vi-mode of the original editor 'ex'.
'ex' stands for "EXpanded" because the students at Berkley expanded the
AT&T editor 'ed' with more commands and a more consistent syntax.
Bill Joy, one of the original Sun founders, added the screen updating
code and switched to "raw mode", meaning that each keypress is sent to
the computer as you type instead of waiting till the ENTER key is pressed.
So much history for such a short thought as...
Intel once supplied a charater oriented editor called 'speed' as part of
their Isis development system which I once used to do something I doubt
'vi' can be coerced into without major programming effort.
I captured a hex dump, similar to 'od -x', to a file and then used 'speed'
on that file to produce assemly language statements to replicate the 4K
byte ROM as as an "include file" of our standard build.
All of this is meant to point out that even if you have a favorite editor
it might fall miserably short on a particular task. If the person you
are offending knows just one of those imbalances then you could wind up
looking foolish.
</Geezer mode>
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