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- From: frain@cis.ksu.edu (Jerry Frain)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (very long)
- Date: 18 Nov 92 06:43:26 GMT
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- papresco@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Paul Prescod) writes:
-
- > And for me, who can forget and type qw instead of wq, a prompt
- > "haven't saved yet" would be nice. BTW, this is not asking for
- > superflurous time wasting prompting. VI will NOT LET YOU QUIT with
- > a Q. It must be wq or Q!. So if I type Q, why not ask me if I
- > meant WQ? Easier for the user, easeir for the power user that
- > forgets.
-
- Friendliness and easiness to use varies from user to user. So use the
- editor you find friendly, and let others use the editor they find
- friendly, and quit yer bitchin'.
-
- BTW, I use GNU Emacs (on my UNIX box), which beats the snot out
- anything that runs on a DOS thing, as well as vi.
-
- > That's fine...your keyboard doesn't have an F1 key and you don't
- > want help. My keyboard DOES have an F1 key, and unix doesn't have a
- > standard F1 key.
-
- Any program that might run on a variety of terminals and relies on the
- existence of function keys is inherently crippled.
-
- F1 is not an intuitive label, I don't see the need for it AT ALL in
- the world of "user friendliness". Certainly a key labelled "help"
- makes much more sense (though not in the context of UNIX).
-
- > VI is decaying.
-
- Bit-rot?
-
- Jerry Frain
-