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From: bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <222@imspw6.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 89 02:35:15 GMT
Organization: IMS Inc., Rockville, MD
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From Ted Holden, HTE:

About the only good thing I can say about the vi editor, which I've 
been unsuccessfully trying to avoid for about the last ten years, is 
that it's a standard.  AT&T should get together with Sammy Mitchell or
somebody who knows how to construct reasonable modern text editors and
come out with something up to 1989 standards for a text editor for V.4
and just get rid of vi which, along with nroff and troff and a couple
of other items I could mention, cannot possibly be serving any further
purpose other than as ammunition for the UNIX-haters.

Ted Holden
HTE