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Re: Newsreaders

From Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject Re: Newsreaders
Date 2014-02-13 15:45 +0000
Organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID <bm47l9FgojgU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2014-02-13, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <bm2alrF4nnhU1@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2014-02-12, Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:
>>> On 2014.02.11, 20:06 , Király wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think vi is usable to people who started using computers in the 1960s.
>>>
>>> I used vi on an hp Unix machine in the 80's or so.  You get used to it, 
>>> but that doesn't make it "good".
>
>> For me and many others, it's more about availability for me. vi/vim is
>> something you can almost always count on being there on just about any
>> *nix system. The same simply cannot be said of alternative command-line
>> editors. That's why learning vi/vim has huge advantages for anyone who
>> works on the command-line on a variety of systems.
>
> And it's also super powerful when you need it to be.

Right. It's much more than the lame TextEdit of word processors. It's
quite full-featured for a command-line editor.  Being ubiquitous likely
helps there too, since more people use it, and naturally more extensions
and so on are added to it as a result.

-- 
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I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

JR

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Re: Newsreaders Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-08 00:49 +0200
  Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-07 18:42 -0600
    Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 02:05 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 02:28 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2014-02-08 13:49 +1100
          Re: Newsreaders Erilar <drache@chibardun.netinvalid> - 2014-02-10 16:26 +0000
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        Re: Newsreaders billy@MIX.COM - 2014-02-08 04:04 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-08 14:23 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 16:26 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-08 19:25 +0000
            Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 20:59 +0000
              Re: Newsreaders Tom Stiller <clusterfux.upmon@gmail.com> - 2014-02-09 02:03 +0000
                Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-09 02:26 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-02-09 02:05 +0100
            Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-09 02:06 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-09 02:25 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-09 17:05 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-08 03:34 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 16:27 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-08 00:24 -0600
    Re: Newsreaders me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-08 16:12 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-08 15:21 -0600
        Re: Newsreaders nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2014-02-08 20:01 -0500
          Re: Newsreaders Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2014-02-08 18:09 -0700
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          Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-08 20:51 -0600
          Re: Newsreaders Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2014-02-28 12:19 -0500
        Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-09 01:40 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-08 21:50 -0600
    Re: Newsreaders Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-09 19:26 +0200
      Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-09 17:31 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-11 21:35 +0200
          Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-11 23:30 +0000
            Re: Newsreaders me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2014-02-12 01:06 +0000
              Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-12 01:13 +0000
              Re: Newsreaders Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-12 17:03 -0500
                Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-12 22:25 +0000
                Re: Newsreaders Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-12 17:37 -0500
                Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-13 15:10 +0000
                Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-13 15:45 +0000
                Re: Newsreaders Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2014-02-13 16:58 -0500
          Re: Newsreaders Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-14 21:58 +0200
      Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-09 23:22 +0000
        Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-09 23:44 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-02-10 02:01 +0100
        Re: Newsreaders Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-02-10 10:00 -0500
          Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-11 13:27 +0000
            Re: Newsreaders Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 09:51 -0500
              Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-11 18:55 +0000
                Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-11 23:28 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-09 19:40 -0600
        Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-10 04:34 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2014-02-10 23:41 -0600
            Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-11 16:23 +0000
            Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-11 19:02 +0000
          Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-11 13:25 +0000
  Re: Newsreaders Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-02-08 02:04 +0000
  Re: Newsreaders Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-02-08 03:33 +0000
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    Re: Newsreaders snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2014-02-09 09:42 +0000
      Re: Newsreaders android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-09 11:02 +0100
      Re: Newsreaders android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-09 11:02 +0100
        Re: Newsreaders snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) - 2014-02-09 16:27 +0000
  Re: Newsreaders android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-09 09:50 +0100
    Re: Newsreaders Matti Haveri <nospam@here.invalid> - 2014-02-09 16:19 +0200
  Re: Newsreaders android <here@there.was> - 2014-02-09 09:53 +0100
    Re: Newsreaders Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-02-09 11:06 +0100
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