From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 01:06:54 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C9761065672 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA85C8FC0A for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58D4EB55C5; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9576450EE; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:52 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qVCLYBs6LbiF; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl105-76.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.224.76]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8812C45088; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5Q16p56013844; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5Q16n3t013843; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Erich Dollansky References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <20090625130725.V13789@gwdu60.gwdg.de> <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:06:49 +0300 In-Reply-To: <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> (Erich Dollansky's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800") Message-ID: <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Manish Jain , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf1783@googlemail.com Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:06:54 -0000 On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:20:19 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: >On 25 June 2009 pm 19:13:14 Konrad Heuer wrote: >> Maybe you're right, maybe not. >> >> 20 years ago, I've written and edited voluminous fortran code >> on a silly rs232 terminal using ed. So, it is possible, and one > > I do not believe you. This must have been 30 years back. As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by reading the source of ed(1) and typing small programs in those terminals. vi(1) was available for a long time before 1993, but this doesn't mean other editors had died out by then :)