Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-athena.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!mit-athena!martillo From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature Message-ID: <64@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 02:46:08 EST Article-I.D.: mit-athe.64 Posted: Sun Dec 9 02:46:08 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 04:30:34 EST References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. 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. 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. Black holes are outta sight!