Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!bellcore!tness7!tness1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Grow your own VI (Re: AVI editor) Message-ID: <2492@sugar.uu.net> Date: 16 Aug 88 12:17:26 GMT References: <2424@sugar.uu.net> <2030100@hpcilzb.HP.COM> <216@mango.athertn.Atherton.COM> Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX Lines: 14 In article ... ericb@athertn.Atherton.COM (Eric Black) writes: > However, [ex and vi] really are two different editor programs which were > combined into one executable. Well as far back as 1979 all the ex commands were present in vi, and from ex you could use the "open" and "visual" commands... so they seemed to be the same program. There was a serious improvement in vi some time in '80, though. Back to the subject... I guess nobody's interested in a copy of 'ed' in 'c'... -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?