Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site denelcor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!denelcor!lmc From: lmc@denelcor.UUCP (Lyle McElhaney) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature Message-ID: <619@denelcor.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 22:46:31 EST Article-I.D.: denelcor.619 Posted: Mon Dec 10 22:46:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 02:13:46 EST References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP> <64@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: Denelcor, Aurora, Colorado Lines: 24 > Vi is an archaic editor which ATT in their infinite stupidity decided > to make the official unix editor. Oh, boy, here comes that rich kid again. > > I have a workstation (Blit-like but better). I can do block modes of > text from one window to another. Think what would happen if I tried to > do a block mode of text to a window where vi was being run in command > mode. Disaster strikes! Emacs is primitive compared to my terminal. I > should be able to press a key and then italic bit-maps should be put in > my file as the italics appear on my screen. Likewise for other fonts or > foreign character sets. To tell the truth in five-years ascii oriented > editors will be a bad memory. No doubt for some they will. Right now I'd kill for a Wyse50... > > Black holes are outta sight! Nothing further to add. He's said it all. Now, for the rest of us, about vi.... -- Lyle McElhaney {hao, stcvax, brl-bmd, nbires, csu-cs} !denelcor!lmc