is it possable to mget any money if i write a version of vi?
Blair P. Houghton
bhoughto at cmdnfs.intel.com
Fri Nov 9 02:22:30 AEST 1990
In article <940 at otello.sublink.org> venta at otello.sublink.org (Paolo Ventafridda) writes:
>why bother to re-invent the wheel?
Why indeed?
>A simple word-wrapping/right-justif. without any printer control
RTFM nroff(1). The vi-macro using nroff to double-justify
text is fairly simple. It's probably in the FAQ for
comp.unix.questions, in fact.
>I think that rewriting ex/vi is far much more difficult than
>writing a simple but workable WP from scratch.
vi(1) and emacs(1gnu) are _extensible_ (especially emacs, which
is more of a build-it-yourself editor kit than an actual editor.)
Maarten (anyone?) should email you a copy of the vi
reference. I think you'd be amazed how powerful that
little editor is. (Maart - I'd do it myself, but my copy is
on a tape in a box behind the-- well, you get the
picture...)
--Blair
"I'd do it myself, but my brain
is on a tape in a box behind
the -- well, you get the picture..."
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