[LIConFem]

Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)

[proxy_user]

vi is the only thing you can count on when you log into a strange Unix box.

If you are bought in a lot to look at other’s problems, it’s the only way to go. That, and ‘find . * | xargs grep somthing’

[ShadowAce]

Thought I was the last one! ;o)

Nope--I'm here also.

[N3WBI3]

Raises hand..

You are not alone

[ken in texas]

...another vi user!! Thought I was the last one!

Don't despair... there are still a few of us out here. :-)

[MarkL]

Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)

Nope, and I use it on Win32 systems too!

Mark

[aragorn]

Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one!

Not a chance! I use vi every day! It is a great piece of work!

[SauronOfMordor]

another vi user!!

And another here. I have to deal with so many different Unix platforms over telnet, vi is the only thing I can be sure is always there

[amigatec]

I like Joe better.

[dayglored]

> Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)

Evidently not.

I had the good fortune to graduate from the line editors (ed, TECO) of the 70's directly to EDT (under VMS on a VAX/11-780) in the early 80's. Tried vi under Unix (Sys5) but I loved the EDT keypad programmability so much that I hacked MicroEmacs into an EDT-ish clone and ported it to all my Unix, Windows, and MacOS systems into the 90's. Used emacs for a while after that, but FINALLY AFTER DECADES OF IGNORING IT, have finally come back to using vi more than anything else, because (as Sauron points out), it works in xterms over remote connections when nothing else will. And 80% of what I do these days is over xterms to remote systems. (Sauron said "telnet" but I'm sure he really meant "ssh".)

The other 20% is typing into TEXTAREA boxes on FreeRepublic posting pages using whatever editor my browser-du-jour and OS-du-jour give me.

There's a lot to be said for the common denominator, least or otherwise.