From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 01:56:18 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 EEDAD1065678 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:56:18 +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 985A18FC18 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:56:18 +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 C678AEB5681; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF74A4509B; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:17 +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 uw70ypstcrrX; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (adsl105-76.kln.forthnet.gr [77.49.224.76]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7942745088; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:17 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n5Q1uGAO014146; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n5Q1uGnb014145; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Erich Dollansky References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:15 +0300 In-Reply-To: <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> (Erich Dollansky's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800") Message-ID: <87eit7sqps.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 01:56:19 -0000 On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use >> in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by > > not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those > days anymore. Heh, true. I only later found out though, when a local admin hit me in the head with a SunOS vi manual. I've lost contact with him a long time ago, but boy am I glad he pointed me at those SunOS manuals... > If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the Seventies. Ouch! :-)