[scott@corp.sonic.net: Re: Why vi? (was Re: [NBLUG/talk] The Debian Way)]

[Walter Hansen]

I actually liked joe quite a bit. It was the first *ix editor I remember
using a lot. Hmmm. doesn't seem to be on my Mandrake server at sonic (the
window I have open at the moment). I think I stopped using it becuase it
wasn't on the systems I was running and I discovered that pico was, so I
switched off to pico. I discovered that pico had some issues unless you
used pico -w, I think I even made a pico starting script to this effect.
Without it pico auto-inserts end of line markers arround column 70 which
wreaks havoc with config files. I used to use joe on sonic a lot.

And yes I have the misfortune of writing a couple of term papers on
wordstar. Fortunately I discovered AppleWriter ][ and later on AppleWorks,
which blew wordstar out of the water. I remember when spell check wasn't
normal but a big deal. I almost couldn't exist with out spell check.

<thinking of mac users faced with vi> :-)

And yes I can use what I want until I hit crontab -e. Of course I could
probably change even that if I did some work.

> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:29:51PM -0700, S. Saunders wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, October 28, 2005 11:54, Walter Hansen wrote:
>>
>> > I think vi was probably the first really usable text editor on
>> > *ix systems and everyone collectively heaved a sigh of relief
>> > and said "I guess that will do" and nobody has had enough
>> > motivation to replace it with something better.
>>
>> Note that there is no single agency *TO* "replace it with
>> something better."
>>
>> Linus could _probably_ force another editor to become the default on
>> *Linux* systems... but not on other Freenix'es (e.g. the BSD's), nor
>> the commercial flavors like Solaris, HP-UX, MacOSX, &c.  <thinks of
>> "vi" becoming "default" under Mac OS, and giggles helplessly...
>> some things are just THAT absurd...>
>
> Actually, the Manchester Computing Center release of Linux used "joe" as
> the
> default editor.  If you cut your teeth on wordstar and bbs editors, joe
> roxors.
>
> _Use what you prefer_ -- that's what's so great about Unix!
>
>  -Scott
> p.s. Besides..."Ed is the standard text editor."
> http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
>
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