I was quite fortunate to have an extraordinarily good computer services department where I worked right out of college. They had emacs on the Suns and the Vaxen. I decided learning one editor beat learning two so emacs it was. Nope, wasn't as "good" as the VAX editor on the VAX but was a lot better than the VAX editor on a Sun. On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:07 PM, Michael Butash wrote: > Same thing here - slowaris early in my unix-y years only had vi prior to > finding out about sunfreeware.com, so i just got used to it. Finding vim > made it that much more likeable to prefer it to today. To this day I'll > find myself when using a windoze system notepad or gedit on linux still > compulsory hitting :wq! when done, and having to think for a sec why it > didn't do anything. Opps... > > -mb > > > > On 08/10/2012 07:46 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> From: Patricia Wilson >> >>> I was exposed to vi several years ago. It made me ever so thankful for >>> the >>> nice people who developed emacs. >>> >> >> Years and years ago, the Solaris boxen at college had vi, but not emacs. >> pico >> didn't cut it for anything complicated. >> >> This left me no choice but to become a vi king. >> >> ------------------------------**--------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.**phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.**us/mailman/listinfo/plug-**discuss > -- Sent from my super hot-shot dual core 64 bit Gateway running Ubuntu 12 from the chrome/teak/glass desktop in my Luxo Scottsdale condo. Patricia Wilson Apache Junction, AZ Member NRA, ARRL WB8DXX (Extra)