A very, very newbie question :)

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <39b79676.14544528 at news.bright.net>,
Jonadab the Unsightly One <jonadab at bright.net> wrote:
>aahz at panix.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:
>>
>> The problem
>> with Emacs from my POV is that I can't stand the basic editing commands,
>
>The commands are okay.  I can't stand the default keystrokes.

That's what I meant.  Same difference from my POV.

>> That's why I stick with vi, which is *always* available 
>
>Clearly you work on mainly Unix systems.  Vi would only be available   
>on *any* computer I use if I installed it there.                       

That's partially true.  My first heavy-duty text editor was Wordstar on
CP/M 3.0, which is where I got baby-ducked into thinking that all True
Editors can run from the keyboard *without* stupid arrow keys.  That's
why vi[m] works for me without customization.

And, yes, I do install vim on any PC that I do Work on.
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