Date: Wed, 29 May 1996 13:17:36 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: obrien@antares.aero.org (Mike O'Brien) Cc: mikee@sys8.wfc.com, stephen@dcs.rhbnc.ac.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: editors Message-ID: <199605291217.NAA13838@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199605280014.RAA23155@antares.aero.org> from "Mike O'Brien" at May 27, 96 05:14:47 pm
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In reply to Mike O'Brien who said > > > There has never been a faster editor [than vi]. > > Well, when we benchmarked the Rand editor against vi, the Rand editor > read in a file four times as fast as vi, and when we read in a file, changed > one character, and wrote it out again, the Rand editor was twice as > fast as vi. This was some years ago; I don't know if the buffer-management > code in vi has been rewritten since then. I think it more the case that vi is faster to *use* i.e. get changes made to your file. That's my opinion anyway, I like the rich set of commands you get from minimum keystrokes. -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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