Xref: utzoo comp.misc:5445 comp.editors:528 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!rutgers!cmcl2!adm!smoke!bogstad From: bogstad@smoke.BRL.MIL (William Bogstad ) Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor Message-ID: <9837@smoke.BRL.MIL> Date: 11 Mar 89 05:49:38 GMT References: <222@imspw6.UUCP> <252@torch.UUCP> Reply-To: bogstad@brl.arpa (William Bogstad (JHU|mike) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 14 In article <252@torch.UUCP> richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) writes: >ABSOLUTELY!!!! >I HATE vi. > >I have only had to use vi in the last couple of months, before that >I have used decent custmisable editors (WYSIWYG) such as > Just out of curiosity ,but what particular feature or non-feature of vi makes it not a WYSIWYG editor? With vi you get exactly what you see on your screen no more and no less. Bill Bogstad BTW, I don't use vi.