Re: "vi" or "pico" ? for new user

From: Tom Renfro <renfro_at_i-55.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 01:35:39 -0600
Message-ID: <79jfcv$gjl$1@nntp.gulfsouth.verio.net>

ProfWdesk1 wrote in message <19990206223334.21093.00000775_at_ng62.aol.com>...
>I'm using pico now while I'm trying to learn Oracle from the beginning. Is
it
>worth the learning curve to learn "vi" now or can I use what seems to be
the
>simple "pico" and learn "vi" later if need?
>
>Roy ProfWdesk1_at_aol.com

vi is much more powerful (I mean by orders of magnitude), but for all practical purposes, pico is all you will ever need. I use both for different things, but I usually only use vi if I need to do a lot of substring replacement using regular expressions. Received on Sun Feb 07 1999 - 01:35:39 CST