Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful?
Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:57 AM, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 1/26/2021 7:42 PM, David Crayford wrote: >> I know the old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks but why not just >> learn native Linux tools? > Because somebody decided that "end save" would be "<esc>:wq" which of course > makes perfect sense :) > > Actually, I barely know enough of the vi editor to get by, and have to google > every time even for simple things like how to move to the bottom of a file. > But other mainframe folks I work with are far worse than me. > > Still, I agree with you. Just learn what everybody else has already found to > work best in that environment. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
