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From: richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.editors
Subject: Re^2: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 13 Mar 89 12:32:28 GMT
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bogstad@smoke.BRL.MIL (William Bogstad ) writes:

>	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.

I was thinking in particular of the C and cw commands, which 
immediately place a $ at the end of the line/word. Until you type past
the $, or hit the ESC key, What You See IS'NT What You Get.

My intent here was not to flame vi or to enter a religious war,
I just consider  it unreasonable that the only "standard" editor shipped
with most unix systems is vi.

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