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Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:02 am
by Tetrad
Let's settle this.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 2:47 am
by Asrale
Sorry, only ever used emacs in my computer science classes in college, wasn't too bad for what we did. Had a personal aversion to UNIX/Linux outside of college, haven't touched it since graduation. :P

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:08 am
by Mobius
I use Homesite for just about all web-code. Notepad and TextPad for other stuff.

The things in your list... are they text editors? ;)

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:00 am
by Nitrofox125
vi, it was the first and only one I've learned so far, and there's something satisfying about knowing what

92Gf{dt}

does. :P

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:06 am
by Dedman
whatyoutalkingaboutwillis

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:08 pm
by MD-2389
Dedman wrote:whatyoutalkingaboutwillis
They're text editors.


Personally, I despise VI, but I've never used the rest.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:15 pm
by Spaceboy
...?

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:44 pm
by DCrazy
I <3 vi.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:57 pm
by VaussBait
vi - the first un*x editor I learned in the 80's and have been happy w/ it ever since.

-Vauss OUT

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:04 pm
by Iceman
vi ... why? because I learned it 20+ years ago, I have never had to update it, and the same exact key sequences do the same things they did 20 years ago. I know that it has a learning curve but it is worth it. I am much more efficient than any other editor when coding.

My favorite feature of vi? I NEVER have to take my fingers off the keyboard to do ANYTHING ... Never even need a mouse ... this make me so much more efficient and faster.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 9:05 pm
by DCrazy
Alright, someone has to complain about vi's distinct inability to work flawlessly over SSH. Might as well be me.

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:29 pm
by Nitrofox125
I've never had a problem vi'ing over ssh...

:%s/DCrazy//g

Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 11:43 pm
by fliptw
sounds like a messed-up escape chars in that SSH setup of yours.

in linux I normally use nano.

Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2004 1:43 am
by Tetrad
Nitrofox125 wrote:I've never had a problem vi'ing over ssh...
Same here.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:48 pm
by WarAdvocat
sheesh.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:49 pm
by Gooberman
vi

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:28 pm
by Xamindar
vi, only one I really bothered to learn and stuck with it.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:32 pm
by Jeff250
Only one I've used is VIM, so I'm glad to see that people are saying it's the best. And, yeah, granted I do noob VI stuff over SSH, I haven't had any troubles yet.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:50 pm
by Sergeant Thorne
When I first read "vi" in another thread, I assumed it meant Visual Interdev (what I use); I can see by reading this thread that I was mistaken. What is "vi", and who makes it?

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:52 pm
by DCrazy
vi is a text editor that dates back to the 70's, as is emacs. Not sure when pico came around. Since these editors are non-graphical, all movement and editing is done with the mouse. Emacs has all sorts of macro capabilities (that's why it was created), but vim is easier to understand and use. For example, when someone before posted ":s/DCrazy//g", that's a vi command to replace all occurrences of DCrazy on the current line with empty text.

Vi is no longer maintained in its original form; vim (VI iMproved) is a clone of the original vi that is in wide use today.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:57 pm
by Iceman
Ref This
Introduction
Vi (pronounce: ``vee eye'', not ``six'', not ``vye'') is an editor. An editor is a program to edit files. Goodbye.

Although other stories exist, the true one tells that Vi was originally written by Bill Joy in 1976. Bill took the sources of ed and ex, two horrendous programs for Unix that try to enable a human being to edit files, and created Vi. A truly remarkable, and somewhat paradoxical, event. Read the interview with Bill Joy for a more accurate history of Vi.

People got attached to Vi, and eventually it got included in System V. From there on history has covered its traces and now Vi has evolved in many different versions for many, many platforms. The basic concept of Vi, however, has not changed over the years.

The Vi Lovers Home Page has links to the latest version of different Vi implementations. In addition, there are links to useful documentation, FAQs, and other (better) Vi related resources. This is the best place to be for every Vi user or Vi user wannabe.

Posted: Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:57 pm
by Iceman
Mobius wrote:The things in your list... are they text editors? ;)
NOOB!!!! LOL ..