Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!cvl!elsie!mark From: mark@elsie.UUCP (Mark J. Miller) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature Message-ID: <4098@elsie.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 17:59:44 EST Article-I.D.: elsie.4098 Posted: Mon Dec 10 17:59:44 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 04:25:20 EST References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP> <64@mit-athena.ARPA> Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 15 > Why is the net so cluttered with discussions of vi? > > Vi is an archaic editor which ATT in their infinite stupidity decided > to make the official unix editor. > > I have a workstation (Blit-like but better). I can do block modes of > text from one window to another. ... Yes, but how many different terminals will your editor run on? -- Mark J. Miller NIH/NCI/DCE/LEC UUCP: decvax!harpo!seismo!elsie!mark Phone: (301) 496-5688