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From: barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
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Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
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Date: 16 Mar 89 02:58:41 GMT
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In-reply-to: brunjes@isctsse.UUCP (Roy Brunjes)

In article <167@isctsse.UUCP>, brunjes@isctsse (Roy Brunjes) writes:
>Just one comment to make here:  A Sun techie doing some consulting with me
>pointed out that even Bill Joy (creator of vi) doesn't use Vi anymore.  He
>uses GNU Emacs.

Bill Joy also said that he regrets making vi modal.
If he knew more about modeless editors like emacs, he would
have hacked together a different beast.

Let's face it, vi was done as a quick hack by a programmer
who was frustrtated by using ed (ex?) and who had dozens of different
terminals all over.

But it does have several nice features for being a hack.
Compared to other editors I was using at the time, it was quite powerful
to one who mastered it.

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