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Item 74: The Great Text-Editor Holy War Item.

Entered by cross on Sun Apr 22 03:42:32 2007:

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#12 of 80 by maus on Tue Apr 24 06:03:50 2007:

To be fair, vi has its quirks as well. The last time I drank with a
friend from UT Austin, he put it very well: "vi has two modes: one which
beeps at me, and one which mangles my file". A mode-oriented editor
either requires you to set a bit in your brain for which mode it is in,
or be prepared to hit Esc button before doing anything to know with some
certainty which mode you are in. 

Oh, and be prepared to retrain your br@n3 when coming back to windows.
Apparently Notepad does not care much for trying to end a file by typing
"Esc :wq", though the version I had when I had that trouble was nice
enough to beep at me, just like vi.

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