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

From: Ronald <ronr_at_wxs.nl>
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 6:20:12 +0100
Message-ID: <01HW.B2E5841C00005EA312849CC0@news.wxs.nl>

On Sun, 7 Feb 1999 8:35:39 +0100, Tom Renfro wrote (in message <79jfcv$gjl$1_at_nntp.gulfsouth.verio.net>):
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> 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 

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> 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.
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I don't know about pico but take a look at vim (http://www.vim.org) It's vi compatible if you want but it's a lot friendlier and even more powerfull than vi. It runs on macintosh and most unixes.

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Ronald.

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