Hardware experiences?

[David Thornton]

I would liken vi to an AK-47.

Cheap, everywhere, with a healthly list of features ( single, semi and 
full automatic)

This email should have the subject:

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Vi

Learn it! It's great! I can run emacs and clones, and vi and clones and 
the difference for me is: vi is there already.

I can :X,Ys/A/B/g with the best of them.

My 2.0e-2

David

Colin McGregor wrote:
> --- "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfaj-uVmiyxGBW52XDw4h08c5KA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, James Knott wrote:
>>     
>>> You mean there are some people who actually don't
>>>       
>> need a 64 bit version
>>     
>>> of vi?  ;-)
>>>       
>>     Or any version, for that matter.
>>     
>
> Now, now... I have dealt with old Sun boxes where the
> only editor awailable was vi. So vi has its place, for
> things like editing network configuration files, so
> you can go out on to the Internet and download a nice
> text editing program :-) .
>
> In other words I see vi as being like the World War II
> FP-45 Liberator pistol, a REALLY cheap and REALLY
> nasty pistol that was given out to resistance groups
> in Europe and Asia. The standing "joke" about the
> FP-45 was that you only used it to kill someone with a
> better gun and then threw the FP-45 away... With vi,
> use it to get something better and then ...
>
> Colin McGregor 
>
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