In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/27/2007
at 10:47 AM, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>In a recent interview Bill Joy(author of vi) said "Can't believe
>anybody still uses that thing" If you wondered about why? Most of
>it is ergonomics. Dr. Joy is a large person. The goal(way back
>then) was to be able to do all the extraneous functions without
>lifting the palms from the keypad.
A friend claims that Bill Joy was working on a better editor, lost the
(paper) tape containing the source and had to slap something together
in a bloody hurry in order to make the deadline. IAC, it is certainly
true that the "editor from Hell" is the most capable editor that you
can safely count on having available when you go to a strange *ix
system.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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