excludes vi in standard
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Thu Jan 29 02:13:22 AEST 1987
From: kimcm at olamb.UUCP (Kim Chr. Madsen)
Date: 19 Jan 87 12:47:59 GMT
Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark)
> The Berkeley Mail program used to construct this message calls
> "vi" from within. Then again, ANY program ca be caled from within
> another program, via the "exec*" system call, so what's the big
> deal about "vi"???
What's the big deal about "vi", well for one thing it's standard!
You don't find a UNIX system delivered without at least three editors:
ed - Common campground for computer travellers.
ex - EXpanded Ed(itor).
vi - VIsual Ex.
Whenever a program needs to call an editor it often searches for the
environment variable $EDITOR and if defined exec* the editor defined
here. If not defined it will search for a default editor (usually vi -
since it's the most user friendly of the three standard editors).
Kim Chr. Madsen
Volume-Number: Volume 9, Number 26
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