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To: Pollard

Dude, I’m a “vi” guy for anything *nix.


17 posted on 08/18/2020 3:15:14 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: ro_dreaming

Yeah, I’m not a terminal guy. I use it when I have to. Not a programmer either. I just despise windows and Gates. Blue screen of stupid.


18 posted on 08/18/2020 4:35:17 PM PDT by Pollard (whatever)
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To: ro_dreaming
> Dude, I’m a “vi” guy for anything *nix.

Funny, these days I am too, but it was a long strange road getting here.

I used line editors (/bin/ed, legit, etc.) until I got on a VAX in the mid-80s’s and discovered EDT. I tried vi, hated it.

Then I found Emacs, which I customized to work like EDT, yeah I know, weird... until around 2001. Then gedit on Linux, and TextEdit on Windows until maybe 2013. That was almost all programming.

But in 2013 I switched from s/w engineering to IT, and all I needed was something to edit config files. And I was in an insanely heterogeneous but mostly *IX network where the only thing in common on every machine was... vi (And yeah I had vi on Windows too).

So I learned to love vi, and now it’s what I use probably 99% of the time, even for programming, even though I swore in the 80’s I couldn’t believe people used vi for programming. Never say never.

22 posted on 08/18/2020 9:08:12 PM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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