To me vi is Zen.
To use vi is to practice zen.
Every command is a koan.
Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated.
You discover truth everytime you use it.
-- reddy@lion.austin.ibm.com
So I wrote many many years ago in a newsgroup
(during the editor wars). I was working for the big blue
then. I was new to zen, I was new to Unix and hence
new to vi. I am still "new" to zen :-) ! I liked the terseness
of zen koans and terseness of the commands in vi/vim editor.
Few days ago, I did a search on zen and I found this quote
has been used by some in their sig files. I was pleased
to see this has been quoted at many places and I am also glad
to see this has been quoted in the Oreilly's book Learning Vi
Editor.
Here are the links to some other quotes that I cam across in the
internet. http://www.vim.org/htmldoc/quotes.html
http://www.saki.com.au/mirror/vi/quotes.php3
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