hi <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Asheesh Laroia</b> <<a href="mailto:asheesh@asheesh.org">asheesh@asheesh.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>The first time I ran vi, I couldn't figure out how to quit. So I<br>rebooted. (I'm not joking.)</blockquote><div><br>LOL ! <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I recommend nano for general text editing -</blockquote><div><br>See, Alex, here we go!!! LOL ! These sys admins have their own text editor stories to tell!! LOL ! You gotta appreciate the humor in the fact that people have really well-defined opinions about something which, to the outside world, looks rather bland and arcane (text editors). But I can totally see this thread going on for another 10 posts, at least! So now, here comes Rick Moen and compares vi to a magic sword. Ya gotta love this stuff. Worth price of admission alone. ;-)
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>vi does have a geek machoness associated with it, but I get enough geek machoness from other parts of my life. (-;
</blockquote><div><br></div></div>And so it goes. heh<br>