On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 2:25 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7/19/22 11:03, R. G. Newbury wrote:
>> But I definitely didn't use vim, I used emacs :-).
> Heretic! Unclean! Unclean!
I've never understood why so many people worship vi. If I need to edit
a file in a terminal, I use Mork's Editor.
time, vi was a big improvement over ed. Many early unix users
learned vi, and now still find it available by default on most linux
systems as well as macOS. Some modern editors are overly
helpful and will replace ASCII characters with look-alike glyphs
from Unicode fonts (opening and closing quotes, different types
of space characters). Recently I'm finding many "bugs" are caused
by these look-alike characters in ASCII configuration files edited
by users. In vi I trust.
George N. White III
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