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Re: Hebrew vim
In message <D260CA1F67@hagiga.jct.ac.il> you write:
|Excuse me for my ignorance, I am a newbie in Linux and I don't
|understand something... Since Emacs for Linux is available
|(either FSF or Lucid or even MULE) how can you speak about
|other editors (like vi, pico, ..., etc., etc., etc.) ?
Since I don't see a smily at the end of the paragraph I assume the
question was asked seriously.
As someone who used various versions of emacs for the last 10 years
and hated vi to the guts I must testify that many times - especially
when you want to get into an editor for a minor change (e.g. remove a
password from single user, add a server to resolv.conf, etc). vi
starts much faster than emacs. Also it is available as an integral
part of many versions of UNIX.
In addition, since it is a screen-oriented interface to ex, which in
turn is an enhancement on ed, it has quite powerfull editing commands.
So you shouldn't dismiss vi altogether - you better learn to use it or
you'll find yourself cursing in front of a dead UNIX machine one
day...
Don't take only my words - someone who might fit the title "the
Israeli Mr. UNIX", used to ask me to edit things for him under vi in
the machines room because he never had the patience to learn vi. (but
he could hack on-the-spot with a "cc -o emacs /dev/tty" if the need
rises, it's just that I worked for him so the need never rose :)
So there... :)
Cheers,
--Amos
--Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for
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Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England."
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