From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 26 04:19:51 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 7D9D81065678 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:19:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (ns1.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D73A8FC17 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:19:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5Q4Jaxv049900; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:19:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:19:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:19:32 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Erich Dollansky Message-ID: <20090626041932.GA32761@thought.org> References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: Giorgos Keramidas , 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 04:19:51 -0000 On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 09:50:31AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: > Hi, > > On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > 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 > > not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those > days anymore. > > > 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 :) > > If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the > Seventies. > > A collegue programmed then even a WordStar clone for RSX to have a > nice editor. > > Of course, only for VT-100 Terminals. This is interesting. I learned vi on an ADM-3A, late-70's. And, *YES*, it is in /rescue! :-D Would not just a symlink work on build? Or since it's < 3700 blocks, why not default build in in /bin too? I mean, come on, you guys... . gary > > Erich > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org For FBSD list: http://transfinite.thought.org/slicejourney.php The 4.98a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php