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| In article Will Parsons % learned vi - when Emacs isn't available, I use the *standard* editor - ed. % (Seriously - a line editor has the advantage over any screen editor in % that it doesn't depend on having suitable terminal settings.) But you must admit that there are times when using ed is even less convenient than using vi. -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada ptjm-at-interlog.com |
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| Patrick TJ McPhee wrote: > In article > Will Parsons > > % learned vi - when Emacs isn't available, I use the *standard* editor - ed. > % (Seriously - a line editor has the advantage over any screen editor in > % that it doesn't depend on having suitable terminal settings.) > > But you must admit that there are times when using ed is even less > convenient than using vi. > Sure - my point was simply that vi is not indispensible. - Will |
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