Re: She (SDA/RLU 7.6) loves me she loves me not

Hello James,

Am 12.05.2025 um 23:03 schrieb James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

I'd go so far as to say that I can't think of a single text editor in existence, going all the way back to emacs, EDLIN on early DOS boxes, XEDIT on CDC mainframes running NOS, or Context Editor ("EDIT") on IBM mainframes running McGill University MUSIC, that I find *LESS* useful, or *more cumbersome,* than vi, and will likely never understand why anybody tolerates it.

Well… many of the original vi inconveniences have been cleaned up in vim, which is my editor of choice. Around y2k I also co-administered some Solaris machines and that was the reason for me to learn enough vi to do basic editing.

Once I got the hang about replacing of text through regex, repeating commands with '.' and so on, I don't want anything else.

And FYI, my editor of choice on Linux boxes is nano.

Suffices for many "edit configfile" tasks.

Still, I'd much rather deal with SEU than EDTF, especially for RPG source, even if I have to override syntax warnings on the newer constructs it doesn't know about.

Both have some similarities to vi, in terms of issuing commands. :-)

:wq! PoC