Date: Thu, 5 Sep 1996 18:16:53 -0500 (CDT) From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) To: kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) Cc: peter@taronga.com, kline@tera.com, doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi tutorial Message-ID: <199609052316.SAA18045@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199609051828.LAA09137@athena.tera.com> from "Gary Kline" at Sep 5, 96 11:28:34 am
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> I think the reason that the original authors of > the helpfile used `mode' was that Bill Joy and > Mark Horton used the term when they published their > original paper on vi. "An Introduction to Display Editing with VI" I know. That tradition has done more to confuse people about VI than anything else in the program or documentation. *sigh*
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