I was sent this, and...

OriginalGriff

The last one rings a LOT of bells[^] :laugh:

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RickZeeland

That sounds viable :-\

Forogar

I concur - totally. I think this was an actual transcript of the very last time I tried to exit VI.

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Simon_Whale

I can use a lot of those for a project that I have inherited * Horrible Hack * It has a few Issues * Obscure * Bad Structure & Complex * Out of scope * need to rewrite it * Legacy code (Imported from VS2010 and never upgraded and new features written in VS2017) The above are the nicer ones that I could use

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Lost User

People still use vi? Nano is a lot nicer, and should be available after a standard install :) [ESC]:q! btw.

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Mark_Wallace

Mostly funny and sort-of true, but the perl one is absolutely true.

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RickZeeland

Vim seems to be very popular: https://www.slant.co/topics/12/~best-programming-text-editors[^]

Lost User

"seems to be". How often have you seen people using it? :D

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RickZeeland

Not where I work, but that's a Windows environment and we are happy with Notepad++ :-\

Chris Quinn

Many years ago, before the advent of IDEs, I was working on a DOS based system that used a 3GL called Dataflex and had obtained a text editor called MultiEdit, which was a huge improvement over coding using Notepad. One of my colleagues, who from time to time had to use the UNIX version of the 3GL, saw this and was mightily impressed. "It would be great to be able to use the same editor for DOS and UNIX development - can you get MultiEdit for UNIX?" "No" I replied, "but I can get you vi for DOS!" He used foul language to me at that point and walked away.

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Dr Walt Fair PE

I haven't tried Nano, I'll have to look into it. On Windows, I usually use PSPad for plain text or vim if I need vi features. It's hard to beat vi's replacement and searching features.

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