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From: buzzard@TheWorld.com (Sean T Barrett)
Subject: Re: Best free code editors?
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In article <1012748467@meta.livejournal.com>, mathew  <meta@pobox.com> wrote:
>I firmly believe that a lot of the trouble people have with vi is from not
>having it explained properly.  I intend to do something about this one
>day...
>
>The learning curve is steep for about half an hour, then you'll wonder why
>all editors aren't like it.  It's like RPN that way.

I use vi, and I swear by the power of vi to combine nouns
and verbs (except, to be honest, there aren't that many verbs
that I combine with them--no verb, the delete verb, and
the yank verb once in a while); but most people don't
like RPN, and most people don't like vi. I think using vi
requires something of a programmer's mindset; perhaps even
a particular programmer's mindset, given that 95% of
progrmmers I know use emacs.

I fear you'll be tilting at windmills here.

SeanB
