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- From: gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen)
- Subject: Re: Bots, WarBots, Fun?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.162129.18685@ugle.unit.no>
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- Organization: MRIH, More og Romsdal Ingeniorhogskole
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- References: <1ea4p5INN5hg@manuel.anu.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 16:21:29 GMT
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- titus chiu (titus@coombs.anu.edu.au) wrote:
- : gardabr@unix1 (Gard Eggesbo Abrahamsen) writes:
- :
- : >from samson, vi (which is the silly editor tin uses on unix1) does no longer
- : >recognize the cursor keys, and editing anything is impossible. I can at best
- :
- : just because you don't know how to use vi doesn't make it silly, and i dont
- : see why anybody would want to know how you telnet from one place to another
- : on irc anyway.
- :
- Vi is awful anyhow, with a load of escape key commands. I mean seriously:
- Escape x for delete? It's rediculous. And I wan't telnetting from irc, but
- from the account that had a working version of screen. Thanks to the help
- given in one of these articles, the problem about the cursor keys has been
- solved, but that doesn't mean that vi is a great editor. No way! I prefer
- emacs.
- : titus chiu -- email: ---------------------
- : ---- titus@coombs.anu.edu.au --
- : dont drink and drive home ---- titus@turing.ORG ---------
- : get stoned and fly home. -------------------------------
- Gard - say ... to ...
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