Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!silver!templon
From: templon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (jeffrey templon)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 20 Mar 89 05:43:58 GMT
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I agree that an editor without modes is a weak editor.  But I still insist
that having cursor movement and text insertion be in completely separate,
incompatible modes is a bit extreme.  To me it is kind of like having a
car in which you have to come to a complete stop before you can change
directions.  I should point out that I don't really know vi, just got
acquainted with it long enough to hate it.  It reminded me of SOS which
I used on the VAX before we ever got VT100s.  Lots of one-letter commands
in one mode, and insertion in another, and never the two shall meet.

					jt