[SlugLUG] running vi

[Erich Blume]

Seriously - does anyone still use nano?

How lame.

At least there is one thing emacs and vi users can come together on: "We
might disagree on which text editor to use, but at least we don't use nano."

I will note that nano was the sole reason I was able to get in to linux,
though. I've always used Gentoo, from day 1, so I've had to edit core files
since Day 1 + 1 hour. If I had had to learn vi right then, I wouldn't be
here today. So cheers to nano for being *nix's notepad.exe.

On 9/30/06 8:21 PM, "Thomas Leavitt" <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> wrote:

> pico vs. nano wars, anyone? :)
> 
> thomas
> 
> Eric Carter wrote:
>> So far this thread is shockingly short on emacs users. Although that's a
>> great story Thomas. :)
>> 
>> EC
>> 
>> P.S. The true target of editor wars is those poor saps who still use
>> pico.
>> 
>> On 9/30/06, Thomas Leavitt <thomas at thomasleavitt.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> vi made me a million dollars (although it didn't help me keep it)
>>> 
>>> i took a unix class at Cabrillo in the early 90s - the prof gave me a
>>> free pass after a few weeks, because I soaked it all up like a sponge
>>> (already having been exposed to a unix-like command line via the Amiga
>>> and a PrimeOS miniframe at a prior school helped)... so I spent the rest
>>> of the semester hanging out in the psych lab with a buddy, working
>>> through the vilearn tutorial (all the way through cutting and pasting
>>> with multiple buffers) on this gigantic creaky VAX running BSD... the
>>> tutorial's extensive training in how to use regular expressions via use
>>> of "ex", etc., put me in good stead when I started my web hosting
>>> service and found out about this new programming language called
>>> Perl. :)
>>> 
>>> thomas
>>> 
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