🚀 go-pugleaf

Is it to much to ask folk to hold their flames for either email, or even 
better, write them only for their own amusement?

For instance, in this latest missage, we are told that the original poster 
should:

> It's good that people are still writing editors -- heck, I'm doing it
> myself -- but don't post treatises on editors that you obviously don't
> know about in order to hype your own.

Yes the poster obviously either didn't understand the original msg or
was so consumed by the need to flame that he missed the fact that:

a) in certain modes of operations, vi does indeed hold off updates until
the escape key is pressed

and 

b) vi does indeed not EASILY permit "arbitrary blocks of text".  For instance,
there is no single simple _vi_ command to allow one to take text such as:


Time		Cost		Purpose

4 mins		$2.50		Cycles of processing
2.5 mins	$1.75		Pages of print

and place the Cost column before the Time column.  Columns are what most
people mean when they describe arbitrary blocks of text - not pieces of
a single line or entire lines.




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