On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Maybe because that's what he's accustomed to? He'd used the system for many
> years, and seems insistant that this is what he wants. Darned near everyone
> seems to hate vi on the unix platform, but a *very* close cousin to that is
> TS-EDIT, which I used for years, and actually liked it. And vi is the only
> *guaranteed* text editor on a Unix box, so it's a good idea to learn the
> very basics if you decide to become a *nix administrator-type person.
Hmm? vi has been my main text editor since I started using it under
TRS-Xenix 1.0 in 1983. When TS-Edit for OS-9 on the Color Computer
showed up in 1985, I found it to be a very usable subset of vi. The
only editing packages I count superior would be Model II Scripsit 2.0
and Scripsit-16 for Xenix (that last I would _dearly_ love to see
ported to Linux, but nobody answers my emails inquiring about the
status of the source code, is it owned by Tandy or Sanyo?).
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
Received on Wed Mar 10 1999 - 22:13:11 GMT