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| ccieToBe 2001-07-13, 1:22 pm |
| Which one do you use? Or do you have another editor of choice? I'm still using ee, and will probably try out these two in the near future. | |
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| OK, this is probably going to sound stupid, but in almost all cases I go with vi. I don't get religious about it like some people (arguing over which text editor is best is pretty lame!). I started using it mainly becase I knew that EMacs won't fit on a floppy, so regardless of which is your personal favourite, if you need to use a rescue floppy, you will need to use vi, and I didn't want to get caught in the position of not knowing it whan am emergency cropped up. I notice that lots of people seem to prefer xedit, as it seems the 'simplest' from anm ordinary user's perspective . . . this is of course, as long as you can get into X! | |
| ccieToBe 2001-07-13, 1:34 pm |
| Sounds like a good reason to learn vi. | |
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| It's actually pretty easy, though not terribly intuitive. Once you learn the basic commands, you learn to "think" in vi, and then it becomes easier. It is actually quite well-designed and it has its own sort of internal logic, and I just got used to it. As for EMacs, I only know a handful of commands and I am not all that familiar with LISP. I've used PICO as nedit as well, and find they work good for quick editing too, although they are not as universal. | |
| neuralfx 2001-07-13, 3:15 pm |
| .... i am religous about vi... emacs.. eck.. pico.. yuck.... vi.. the only text editor..
-neural | |
| TW2001 2001-07-13, 4:18 pm |
| vi.....but I havent really used much else.Its seems there is much to learn about with vi....so | |
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| Definitly Emacs... it is a very useful editor on the unix system.. | |
| kwoksir 2001-07-18, 10:00 am |
| vi, I vote no question.
At the time when I was in university I am the mania for vi. I even not very comfort with dos EDIT editor and so I use "vi for dos"
As I know, there is a service for Unix when install in NT/2000, you will get vi editor for dos. | |
| Randy 2001-07-18, 10:02 am |
| Actually, I use it in Windows as well.  | |
| Supertech 2001-11-07, 8:52 am |
| I've beeen using vi for so long, I don't even think about it. | |
| mkurowski 2001-11-14, 10:11 am |
| i don't remember who said it, but emacs is nice for an operating system - go with vi for an editor! ;-)
vi is sweet, nigh-universal, small, fast, functional, ...
emacs is nice but not my preference and i wouldn't recommend it to anyone for most reasons (barring lispers and compsci students who need to use it as a req).
vim rocks too, is free and has prebuilt binaries for most systems including win32.
gvim is nice on linux/unix for a gtk (graphical) frontend.
personally, when i'm braindead i still lapse to joe - i've wordstar commands embedded in my failover circuits so it's a great standby on linux. | |
| sibley 2001-11-15, 2:38 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by mkurowski
. . . emacs is nice for an operating system - go with vi for an editor! ;-)
My sentiments eggsactly. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-11-26, 7:21 pm |
| Wow, this thread's been around for a while and gotten 450+ views. It looks like vi's the most popular by far and only two people have come to the realization that I've been at the console too long  | |
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| MrFlubbins 2001-12-04, 1:49 pm |
| VI because you may find yourself in a situation, after a crash or in single user mode, when that is the only editor available. Plus, no matter what box you work on, it will have VI. You cannot say the same about any other editor.
R' | |
| sibley 2001-12-04, 2:08 pm |
| I also find that vi fits into UNIX more seamlessly as a UNIX utility than EMACS, which always strikes me as a bit more of an add-on . . . something laid "on top" of an already working system. That is total prejudice, though. The truth is, I just like vi better.  | |
| Warfare 2001-12-12, 5:01 am |
| Nice article sibley
vi till i die  | |
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| huntert 2002-02-20, 8:54 pm |
| Only way = vi | |
| ccieToBe 2002-02-20, 8:57 pm |
| Wow, this thread's been active for 7 months and 7 days. That's got to setup some sort of record ... I take that back. Yeti's "Is MS for Real" post has been around for almost a year  | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-02-26, 3:22 pm |
| vi. |
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