Why vi? (was Re: [NBLUG/talk] The Debian Way)

[E Frank Ball]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 03:29:51PM -0700, S. Saunders wrote:
} 
} Also note that "vi" falls into an entire *family* of editors, that
} include programmers' tools like "sed"... with commands that transfer
} from editor to editor; so, UNIX shell-programmers (i.e. many if not
} most SysAdmin types) *like* to have this familiarity when they move
} from programming to text-editing and back.

sc is a spreadsheet program that uses a subset of vi
commands for naviation and editing.

elvis is a vi based editor for editing web pages.  It sees
them like a text based browser. 

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us