10 Mar
1999
10 Mar
'99
10:13 p.m.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Maybe because that's what he's accustomed to?
He'd used the system for many
years, and seems insistant that this is what he wants. Darned near everyone
seems to hate vi on the unix platform, but a *very* close cousin to that is
TS-EDIT, which I used for years, and actually liked it. And vi is the only
*guaranteed* text editor on a Unix box, so it's a good idea to learn the
very basics if you decide to become a *nix administrator-type person.
Hmm? vi has been my main text editor since I started using it under
TRS-Xenix 1.0 in 1983. When TS-Edit for OS-9 on the Color Computer
showed up in 1985, I found it to be a very usable subset of vi. The
only editing packages I count superior would be Model II Scripsit 2.0
and Scripsit-16 for Xenix (that last I would _dearly_ love to see
ported to Linux, but nobody answers my emails inquiring about the
status of the source code, is it owned by Tandy or Sanyo?).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor