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Article #36Re: The Death of vi?
From: Doc Chaos
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 14:33
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 14:33
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G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly) writes:
>
>Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very least, is
>now ubiquitous.
^^^^^^^^^^
ubiquitous, eh? Pretty strong assertion that. Thank god I can still
select a vi-like interface in ksh and tcsh. Hmmm, what else? Oh yeah,
hack(6) uses vi cursor keys for motion. So does less(1). And fortunately
I can setup readline(3) to my own tastes.
Besides, if you didn't have vi(1), how would configure the EMACS makefile? ;->
--
m.robinson@reading.ac.uk
"I really like the jacket but the sleeves are much too long" - Lemmy
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