23 Feb
2013
23 Feb
'13
7:19 p.m.
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett(a)wdtv.com> wrote:
On Saturday 23 February 2013 12:33:28 Len Ovens did
opine:
I really do hope that the editor you used "way back when" was VED :)
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On Sat, February 23, 2013 12:38 am, Chris
Bannister wrote:
Hey, I resemble that remark. :) The editor I use on the color computer has
had several names over the years, vi being the first one. Then somebody On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:11:44PM -1000, david
wrote:
vi was user friendly when it was developed... when memory was tight and
more than one variable would get stored per byte, when a non-volatile
drive was 1/4 meg. Oh, and of coarse look at the users it was being
friendly to. K3B takes the power approach: You want the power,
you got the power.
Here's hoping you know how to use it! ;-)
Imagine the state vi/vim would be in if it was decided being user
friendly was more important than features!