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From: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature
Message-ID: <725@watcgl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Dec-84 11:11:11 EST
Article-I.D.: watcgl.725
Posted: Tue Dec 11 11:11:11 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 03:34:09 EST
References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP> <64@mit-athena.ARPA>
Reply-To: dmmartindale@watcgl.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <64@mit-athena.ARPA> martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) writes:
>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.  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.

Why is the net so cluttered with bragging?

	Dave Martindale