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# 113  
Old 12-11-2006
As "Zazzy bob" says the VI editor helps to learn SED comands as well ... I also learned SED after using VI only ,really intresting ...

VI is the King of kings for ever.......
# 114  
Old 12-11-2006
Although it's not on the the poll, Mac users are familier with OS X's editor called TextEdit. If you open a shell in OS X, vim is the default editor.
# 115  
Old 12-21-2006
Power I'd prefer vi to other editors
If you ever expect to really use Unix or if you ever expect to use other Unix systems (SCO, Solaris etc), yes. vi is the standard Unix editor; you'll probably have to learn how to use it eventually.

http://mind-map-you.blogspot.com/200...-mind-map.html
# 116  
Old 12-21-2006
I used to use pico when I first started out, but I have gotten more and more used to vi and it rocks! Speaking of which, rocky vi is due out soon. Smilie
# 117  
Old 12-21-2006
Vim 6.4 for Windows and then transfer it to the unix system Smilie

This is more out of practicality since I just like having the menu bars at the click of a mouse and I'm just more comfortable with the GUI version. Also most of the system I work with are set to run level 3 and don't have any GUIs installed or configured so it's not going to do me much good to startx.

Personal favorite editor of mine is rm -f Smilie
Never complains about syntax and the result is always as expected, a blank line and no file Smilie
# 118  
Old 12-21-2006
been doing vi so long it's second nature now. Great forum btw.
# 119  
Old 12-22-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by Aaron Van
Although it's not on the the poll, Mac users are familier with OS X's editor called TextEdit. If you open a shell in OS X, vim is the default editor.
i have a mac (with system 7 on it though) which uses an editor called teachtext.
This is a gui editor, which is fine and simple, but it only allows one file or window to be open at a time! to be honest i would really like to have good old bash and vi on that mac! well, c'est la vie i suppose.

it's a classic ][e so no hope of upping it to OSX!
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