[wplug] A question of etiquette

Michael P. O Connor mpop at mikeoconnor.net
Thu Jun 2 12:01:40 EDT 2005



> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 22:16:58 -0700 (PDT)
> Rob Prowel <tempest766 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Heh, on my GUI system, I have nedit installed.  It's a very
> lightweight WYSIWYG type editor.  Though I still use
> vi(1) 25% of the time.  All my non-GUI systems, it's
> vi(1) all the way.  I can't understand installing an application
> for the mere purpose of text editing when the base has
> several methods to edit text:
> 
> # cat <<EOF>> TXTFILE
> # vi TXTFILE
> # sed/awk/tr/whatever TXTFILE > NEWTXTFILE
> 
> Too easy.

depends on the text you are editing, I want my emacs for my cpp my h and
all my other files. vi remindes me to much of edline
-- 
Michael P. O'Connor
mpop at mikeoconnor.net
http://www.mikeoconnor.net



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