From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 9:16:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA9437B442 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5CG9sb49134; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200106121609.f5CG9sb49134@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: David Leimbach Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi/ex lineage In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 09 Jun 2001 09:41:10 CDT." <20010609094110.A477@mutt.home.net> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:54 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David delivered, > Here is the family tree: > > ed > ex sed > vi > vim elvis [other vi like editors] is it? weren't ex and vi (ok, and view, but *noone* uses that anymore, do they?) always the same program, just with two interfaces depending upon the name under which it was invoked? I know this was the case by the early 80's, but was there a vi-less ex at some point? hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message