Rand Editor

[cottrell at nbs-vms.ARPA]

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>      Has anyone heard of the 'Rand' editor?  I found it on a
> Perkin-Elmer 3210 running under UNIX-7 (Bourne and C-shell).
> Where did the Rand editor originate and who supports it?
> Is it from Perkin-Elmer?  It seems to be much more user-friendly
> than vi.  It seems to be a page editor which draws windows, 
> can display several files simultaneously, tells you at all
> times what is going on, and many other neat things.
>      By the way, everyone on that system prefers the Rand editor 
> over vi, except for the systems administrator. And he insists
> on pronouncing vi like 'vye' instead of 'vee-eye'.  (His previous job 
> was with Control Data.)
> Any comments? 
> 
> Bernd Riechelmann                   (Not affiliated with U.C. San Diego)
> UUCP: ...!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371,   ARPA: sdcsvax!sdcc12!wa371 at nosc

VI is much more capable than RE. The keys all have mnemonic names,
d for delete, w for word, i for insert, etc. I don't know how the
keystrokes for RE were developed. RE is simple to learn tho.
VI is more complex & powerful, and sometimes confusing. VI includes
macros, repeat the last cmd that changed the text, undo same, multiple
delete/yank buffers & markers, regular expressions, & shell escapes.
RE does multiple windows and cursor defined open/close which is nice.
VI is pronounced `vee-eye' as noted in `An Introduction to Display
Editing with Vi' by William Joy. Nuff said!
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