> -----Original Message----- > From: Bryan Murdock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:21 > To: BYU Unix Users Group > Subject: RE: [uug] backspace, delete, and vim > > > On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 10:02, Travis Stevenson wrote: > > > I've had vi beep at me for hitting what should be normal keys a > > > lot. I thought that was half the fun for you guys, or > > > something. > > > > Normal keys? Nothing's normal about it. > > :) I meant normal keys like backspace. > > > Anything that was built for dumb > > terminals and still exists today is not normal. > > > > --Travis > > > > That may be a tribute to the excellent design of vi (did I just say > that? I mean it's a tribute to how zealous some geeks are, won't > even upgrade their text editor :). The technology has changed, but > the editor is still the same. Emacs is pretty darn old too. Change > is good in a lot of places, but apparently not in text editors. > > Bryan
It is pretty impressive how text editors can remain so much unchanged on the surface, while changing so much underneath. Take Unicode, for instance: when vi first appeared, Unicode wasn't even an idea yet. But vim handles it nicely anyway, and still acts like a good vi :) ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
