Interesting vi bug/feature
Dave Martindale
dmmartindale at watcgl.UUCP
Wed Dec 12 02:11:11 AEST 1984
In article <64 at mit-athena.ARPA> martillo at 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
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