Craig <craig at craigwdesigns.com> wrote: >On Nov 2, 2004, at 9:13 PM, lists3-200402 wrote: > > > although i own both a mac (running osx) and a pc (running windows xp), > > i don't spend much time on the pc - it doesn't have vi. > >Why not? gvim for windoze works great. It's a lot better then the OS X >port... >Not to mention vim for DOS; I used to take it to school on a floppy so >I wouldn't have to use notepad. No problems there. > >- Craig vi is on every 'nix so it's the editor i was taught from the beginning to use. you can't install stuff on a client's server so you use what's there. vi is the most common editor. sure, you have vim, gvim, emacs, etc., but i prever the very old, stable and widely used vi. :)