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!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hpda!fortune!amdcad!decwrl!decvax!mit-athena!martillo From: martillo@mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Interesting vi bug/feature (Reply to Mark Horton) Message-ID: <79@mit-athena.ARPA> Date: Wed, 26-Dec-84 01:04:10 EST Article-I.D.: mit-athe.79 Posted: Wed Dec 26 01:04:10 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Dec-84 03:10:57 EST References: <1705@umcp-cs.UUCP> <64@mit-athena.ARPA>, <600@cbosgd.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Project Athena, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 9 I do not know if the current blit software permits block moves of text from one blit window to another. That is I can be running more in one window and emacs in another. If I want to take a block from the more window and put it in the emacs buffer, I should be able to do so. If I am using vi and vi happens to be in command mode this action could be disastrous. There is also no sign in vi which tells which mode vi is in. This strikes me as a major flaw. Therefore vi is not upwardly compatible with the next generation of intelligent terminals which have decent software (unlike what might be available for the blit).