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From: sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: UNIX needs a real text editor
Message-ID: <3084@nunki.usc.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 89 20:14:19 GMT
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Reply-To: sawant@nunki.usc.edu (Abhay Sawant)
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In article <79700025@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>The things I like about VI are
>
> -- I used to appreciate its incredible speed.  It can maintain
>    the screen while using VERY FEW cpu cycles.  Unfortunately,
>    this "feature" is rapidly becoming obsolete, with cray-1's
>    on a chip being introduced every day.

I'm sorry; i can't see *any* editor with Unix approaching the speed of
writing on screen memory.  Believe me, *most* Unix machines i've used
so far have problems keeping up with me when writing-invoking editor
commands at over 100 wpm.

Whatever goes for vi; speed is not one of them.