Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
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From: kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates)
Subject: Re: HEY- editor wars!
Message-ID: <kpicott.665156134@willy>
Keywords: editor
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References: <1991Jan28.201856.7624@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 29 Jan 91 13:35:34 GMT

In <1991Jan28.201856.7624@cbnews.att.com> itch@cbnews.att.com (richard.m.brack) writes:

>This is not true at all.  I use the backspace key in vi all the time
>to go back and correct a typo.  You don't have to use <ESC> 'x' 'a' all
>the time.  Just to make sure, let me try the backspace key, yep, worked
>just fine.  I have never used emacs, so I won't get in this argument,
>I'll just say that different people are comfortable with different ways
>of doing things.  I like 'vi'.  I know how to use it.  It does what _I_
>want.

I thought so too, until I started using the VI clones available for the
Amiga.  The VI I use at work does what _I_ want.  VI clones at home do what
_they_ are capable of.  I haven't seen one yet that handles my most used
function, :map.  This function makes up for 99% of the programmability of
Emacs and it's why I never switched over (too much work for an extra 1%).

Any VI users out there find an Amiga version that is *fully* operational?

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