[Sussex] Straw Poll

[Gareth Ablett]

> > vi seems to hold a lot of kudos considering that it is
> > fundementally akward
> > to use.
> 
> Thinking about this, it occurs to me that this is _why_ people
consider vi
> use to be an status thing.  In the old days vi used to be the first
app you
> learnt to use, and operating vi correctly is a right of passage.
These days
> most distros drop you into a GUI environment from day one, and even
the
> likes of Debian and Gentoo default to GNU Nano instead of vi.  To
think we
> are entering an age where there are thousands of Linux users who don't
know
> their ESC-Z-Z from their :q!
> 
> ..but then perhaps that is a good thing.

I guess I my case it was because my first ever use of a Linux or Unix
environment
Was through a Telnet connection so you don't have any of the GUI
software that you 
would normally have after installing a desktop. And as any of the help I
would find 
on the net when I first needed to get things done would tell you to use
vi, so I 
did and yes I found it hard the first load of times with there being
almost now 
way of just knowing how to use it. Even the likes of edit in MsDos had
the 
fundamental design to allow easy use for a beginners. But then there are
probably harder editors to use then vi that just are not that popular.

Gareth Ablett
Systems Developer

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