On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, andrew holway wrote:
Speaking personally, I'd rather burn off my pre-cancerous old-age spots with a wood-burning kit than use vi for more than two minutes at a time ("... only long enough..." see above) but to each their own, I suppose.Now come on, I am but an ungainly fawn in the unix wilderness and have found vim to be albeit comfortably confusing but incredibly powerful editor. I thought that it was the mark of a true unix beard to be able to use vi(m). you should all be ashamed. Especially after all that talk of paper tapes and computers that made heavy clunking sounds etc. I have never even used a 5 1/4 inch floppy in anger.
<whimper> I just never liked hopping into and out of text insertion mode, and even though nethack DOES use the vi cursor movement keys to move around (this was one of the original motivations for the game, IIRC) that doesn't mean that I find them particularly natural. IMO, one can be good, really good, at just one editor. One's fingers learn to do things without thinking, as they should, and the keyboard becomes a true extension of one's consciousness, as it should. Long, long ago, I tried both and preferred jove. As a consequence, while I CAN use vi -- and when I must, I do -- the lack of the direct neural connection I have with jove is frustrating and slows me down. Alas, this means that you've found me out. I'm no true beard, but merely a pretender. A slacker, in fact. rgb -- Robert G. Brown Phone(cell): 1-919-280-8443 Duke University Physics Dept, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Web: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb Book of Lilith Website: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Lilith/Lilith.php Lulu Bookstore: http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=877977 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
