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

Tom Renfro wrote:
>
> 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.

Being originally from a VMS environment, I hated vi and can understand the desire for a more user friendly editor.

But I would definately say it is worth it to learn VI. It is on every unix platform -- a common denomintator (so to speak).

dB Received on Mon Feb 08 1999 - 12:23:22 CST