I know how I first encountered vi... it was probably 1994 or 1995... (Wiki looks like maybe 1994 was first intel release, so that tracks) - and I had only used

I know how I first encountered vi... it was probably 1994 or 1995... (Wiki looks like maybe 1994 was first intel release, so that tracks) - and I had only used Linux up to that point and had never really used an editor other than pico (now nano, which was the editor for the pine email client!). I thought playing with Solaris would be "cool" so I installed it and couldn't get it on my network because I needed to edit the /etc/resolv.conf to add host resolution, but there was no pico editor! I ended up digging into manual pages to figure out how to use vim, and over the course of getting the system set up I got pretty comfortable with a lot of the patterns vim let me make faster, they are mostly things I might run in a shell like grep or awk, but I can do it without shelling out, so that was a bonus. edited: now that I think of it, I bet I was not using vim, just vi - so the relevance to this article might not be quite on.