Re: Oracle: Naked King in database land?

Originally posted by Rene Nyffenegger
> > That old joke perfectly reflects my own experience: there is no
> vi feature
> > which suggests that its creator had IQ more than 50. The world
> moved since
> > then, and no decent editor today require a user remembering
> silly and
> > counter intuitive commands anymore. Why are you guys so
> vigorously defending
> > this old piece of junk?
>
>
> My IQ is way higher than 50 and I am using vi, so I take it what you
> say is to
> insult me.
>
> Then again, I like to use an editor that can be handled with 50 IQ
> points only.
>
> Rene Nyffenegger
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I used to use vi about 10 years ago, and liked it. But then the alternatives tended to be even more terse line editors like SQL Plus's.

I now much prefer using an intuitive editor like TextPad, where you can point your cursor to where you want the text and start typing, instead of having to decide whether to type i, I, a, A, o or O first. Visual cut and paste is another indispensable feature. And yes, I can do global search and replace using regular expressions when I want to.

Sorry, I've been tempted by the devil, and he won!

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