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Subject: Lattice, and vi-ex
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Date: Wed, 21-May-86 16:37:01 EDT
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	Rather strange wording, but to keep matter's straight, UNIX Vi was
built on top of ex.

Dave Haynie writes:
>actually executes LISP itself.  Also, isn't the "line-oriented mode" of
>the UN*X systems actually a thing called EX, the extended editor that 
>calls VI as its screen-oriented submode?

Also:

>The size of the code is Lattice's stupidity in organizing their libraries; 
>the Lattice code itself is small.

	I agree.  Lattice code isn't fantastic, but neither is it as slow as
we are led to believe.  It's mainly the ridiculous library organization
and the huge executable's (lc1 and lc2) that take all the time.

					-Matt