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Re: The Death of vi?

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From: Einar Indridason
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 18:00
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In <Bwxv3A.6JJ@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk> mdr@bjorn (Doc Chaos) writes:

>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? ;->

with ed?

:-)


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