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Article #63Re: The Death of vi?
From: Gilles BERGER SABBATEL
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 08:11
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 08:11
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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. Why on earth should we install emacs on our machines, and call it to use a vi emulation, while the real vi is faster and 7 times smaller? What vi folks like with it is that it is a simple editor (neither a newsreader, nor a mailer, nor a debugger, nor a coffee machine...), and that most movements are obtained with a single keystroke (no CTRL, no SHIFT), and it is moded - yes, I like it! What vi lacks is a more powerfull macro-language, and multi-buffer features. Perhaps multiple windows, and certainly some X features (windows, mouse...). Editors much more simple than emacs provide such features (such as microemacs, or vile). -- Gilles BERGER SABBATEL Tel: (33) 76 57 46 13 Laboratoire d'appartenance : TIM3 IMAG-LGI/INPG, 46 Avenue Felix Viallet, 38031 GRENOBLE CEDEX - FRANCE
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!corton!babbage!cosmos.imag.fr!berger From: berger@imag.fr (Gilles BERGER SABBATEL) Newsgroups: comp.editors Subject: Re: The Death of vi? Message-ID: <berger.720778310@gram> Date: 3 Nov 92 08:11:50 GMT References: <3159@ucl-cs.uucp> Sender: news@imag.fr Organization: Institut Imag, Grenoble, France Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: gram