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[Void]

Anyone here use VI? I was very reluctant to learn how to use this several months ago but once I actually did learn it I love it. You can do everything so fast. I'm actually considering getting VI for windows. lol.

I like VIM even better but the older unix systems do not have it (only VI). I do most of my linux program in VI now which is generally only PHP or shell scripts.

[Lop]

I have heard of it but never wanted to learn how to use it. I always here linux gurus yapping about how they love it though.

[Saint]

I've used VI before but did not like it and couldn't use it. Not sure if I will ever like it either.

[WingedPanther]

VI rocks! I don't use it much anymore, but that's mainly because I'm working on things it doesn't lend itself to well. As a raw text editor it is THE BOMB!

[kromagnon]

Vi sucks. Pico wins.

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[dirkfirst]

can't argue with kromagnon on this point. Why would you want your text editor to have a learning curve????

[WingedPanther]

I use a lot of software that has a learning curve... some of it pretty steep. If I get a lot of power/speed in exchange, it's worth it. As an example, I have two flowcharting programs installed on my computer: Dynamic Drawand Dia. Dia is very simple to learn, and pretty good. Dynamic Draw has versioning capabilities and completely customizable icons, but wretched documentation (unless you speak japanese). In addition, Dynamic Draw has keyboard shortcuts that let me work with one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse. I can get faster, more precise results that do exactly what I want out of Dynamic Draw, so I use it despite the learning curve. Same thing with VI, the learning curve gives you POWER.

[Blaze]

What is VI? I've never heard of it.

[WingedPanther]

It's a text editor that was designed to be powerful, but only use keyboard commands. It has full search/replace, etc. Think of it as notepad only powerful.