[2009-11-06 10:22] Sven Guckes <maillist-wmi-annou...@guckes.net> > * Uriel <lost.gob...@gmail.com> [2009-11-05 10:36]: > > I use ed almost every day, it is by far the > > fastest way to to small edits, by the time vi > > starts up, I have typed /foo\n c\n bar\n .\n wq\n > > you can type these commands while vi starts up? > all within half a second or less? respect! > (does that "vi" gui really slow down > the startup that much? hmm...)
At least over a slow connection it does. I often work over 64k and the ncurses interface is only usable without delay when I have the whole bandwidth for the interactive session. Ed does not need to print the whole screen when it starts up. > > And here is the thing about ed, I know (or used to > > anyway) every command and feature inside-out by heart, > > while *nobody* knows what 1% of the vim options do! > > vim has about 400 options. i claim to know a dozen > which is clearly about one percent. so you're wrong. :-P Discussing with Sven on Vim is like diskussing with Uriel on Plan9. With the only difference that Sven doesn't say ``liquid shit'' so often. ;-) meillo
