Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature Message-ID: <4763@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 14:34:02 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4763 Posted: Tue Dec 11 14:34:02 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 14:34:02 EST References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP>, <64@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 15 > ... 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. By all means let us know when you write a C compiler that accepts bitmaps on its input. Likewise when you have rewritten all the rest of Unix to accept your wondrous new input format. I agree that something along these lines may well have to be done someday... but until then, we've got a *very* large investment in ASCII-based tools. And it's not easy to define a really general-purpose replacement for ASCII, either. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry