[LAU] An appeal to famous artists?

[david]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> 
>> It seems some people stumble upon it by accident, more or less. Just met
>> one on saturday. It went something like this: "what do you study?"
>> "computing science" "Linux user?" "Yep" *imagine funky face* "Tried to
>> use vi or something once for some fluid dynamics thing, we used [bla]
>> instead".
>> Just a single case and no idea how exactly he stumbled upon it, but it
>> was obvious that he a) associated Linux with vi(m) and b) was put off
>> fast by vi(m). I doubt a nicer introduction could have helped in this
>> case though, simply because vi(m) is a really complex beast and you
>> either invest time to learn what you need to learn about it or you can't
>> use it. There's no way around investing time with this thing.
> 
> At the other end of the scale, I've been on Linux since 1996 and
> Unix systems since 1988 and I still avoid vi/vim whenever I can.

Ah, you must be an Emacs man. ;-)

> I can edit config files with vi/vim, but I simply can't code with
> it because it chews up too much of my mental attention doing the
> basics in the damn editor.

I used to use vi so much that I tracked down a DOS version called See. 
See was a tiny little executable, easy to fit on DOS rescue floppies.

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