Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tekgen!tekigm2!phils From: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Minix, Unix on the Amiga, and flames on AmigaDOS braindamage... Keywords: spam Message-ID: <5771@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM> Date: 12 Aug 89 05:23:09 GMT References: <3352@sol.warwick.ac.uk> <4031@cps3xx.UUCP> <7559@cbmvax.UUCP> <5067@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <439@xdos.UUCP> <63189@linus.UUCP> Reply-To: phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Vancouver, WA. Lines: 34 In article <63189@linus.UUCP> rachamp@mbunix (Champeaux) writes: >In article <439@xdos.UUCP> doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) writes: [ comments about 'vi becoming second nature' deleted] >> >>Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug > >I agree that VI isn't all that bad once you get used to it. I've been forced >to use it at work for the past couple of months, but I'm still a novice user. >The thing that really annoys me is that it's beginning to become second nature. >When I go home and use UEdit, I end up inserting h's,j's,k's, and l's all over >the place. I've gotten into the habit of pressing ESC every time I want to >move the cursor, and I get confused when I try to exit the file with :x. Two >more weeks and I get to become a one editor person again. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >Rich Champeaux (rachamp@mbunix.mitre.org) This is precisely why I switched to MicroEMACS 3.10. I have occasion to use 4 different operating systems on a regular basis (BSD, VMS (Uggh!), MS-DOS(GAAK!), and AmigaDOS), and I have MicroEMACS on all of them, and they all work the same way. I used vi for much the same reason for a long time (until I started having to grovel around in VMS), though I was never completely satisfied with the minor differences between the clones. I was also envious of the people with editors which could handle multiple windows on screen at once. MicroEMACS was a good solution, but it wasn't until version 3.10 that I was happy enough with it to switch to it completely. Regards, Phil -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Staub, phils@tekigm2.MEN.TEK.COM Definition: BUG: A feature (present or absent) which is (at best) inconvenient.