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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <2238@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 10 Mar 89 01:13:37 GMT
References: <222@imspw6.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <222@imspw6.UUCP> bob@imspw6.UUCP (Bob Burch) writes:
>
>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.

Tell Ted to put his cap-pistol away.  Vi is a perfectly sound editor.

				--Blair
				  "Whaddaya mean, I have to learn
				   Lisp just to compose a macro...!?"