To: proxy_user
Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)
14 posted on
07/05/2007 9:55:33 AM PDT by
LIConFem
(Thompson 2008. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter 2008 (VP) Lifetime ACU Rating: 92)
To: LIConFem
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’
To: LIConFem
Thought I was the last one! ;o) Nope--I'm here also.
19 posted on
07/05/2007 10:04:39 AM PDT by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: LIConFem
Raises hand..
You are not alone
24 posted on
07/05/2007 10:12:28 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
(Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak....)
To: LIConFem
...another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! Don't despair... there are still a few of us out here. :-)
31 posted on
07/05/2007 10:25:09 AM PDT by
ken in texas
(come fold with us.... team #36120)
To: LIConFem
Wow, another vi user!! Thought I was the last one! ;o)Nope, and I use it on Win32 systems too!
Mark
47 posted on
07/05/2007 11:07:23 AM PDT by
MarkL
(Listen, Strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government)
To: LIConFem
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!
66 posted on
07/05/2007 1:30:49 PM PDT by
aragorn
(Tag line? What tag line?)
To: LIConFem
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
73 posted on
07/05/2007 4:40:54 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(Open Season rocks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI)
To: LIConFem
76 posted on
07/05/2007 5:33:49 PM PDT by
amigatec
(Carriers make wonderful diplomatic statements. Subs are for when diplomacy is over.)
To: LIConFem; proxy_user; ShadowAce; N3WBI3; ken in texas; MarkL; aragorn; zeugma; SauronOfMordor
>
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.
78 posted on
07/05/2007 7:48:45 PM PDT by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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