Thread: Regular Expressions help needed
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Old 10-02-2009, 03:58 PM   #14
ahi
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It depends on their age and background. When I first started working in the Computing field, everybody that used UNIX knew VI well, tech savvy or not.

Now there are so many alternatives that is not a safe assumption.

VI is by no means a developer/coder's tool. It is just a very quick and powerful text editor, power in the form of efficiency, where using a mouse just slows you down.

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I don't use a mouse for editing with gEdit or Kate... so however good it may be, VI is not a necessary savior from mouse-use.

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