[ale] Emacs stinks, Vi is for wimps

Paul Cartwright paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
Sat Oct 8 07:37:46 EDT 2005


On Fri October 7 2005 4:22 pm, Geoffrey wrote:
> >>Bill Joy.
> >
> > don't know him!
>
> Uh, yeah. :)

ok, so I don't know Kernigan & Ritchie either <G>

 
> I don't know if that is the point of vim verses vi. ?You've always
> been able to have multiple files open with vi. You simply switch
> between the files with the :e,:n,:N commands. ?Of course with the
> vim -ON, you get multiple windows, one for each N, but I find that
> too crowded. Just open each one in a separate term.

on the newer high-res monitors, it isn't as crowded ( to me), but as 
always, there is more than one way to VI a file .


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