From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 9 5:42: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF0937B403 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 05:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f59CfpJ39433; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 14:41:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B22198F.CB4908A3@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 14:41:51 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Halbert Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Jason Halbert wrote: > > Why is vi the default choice of editor for UNIX and how did it become > the default? I find it cumbersome. Because they weren't there at the time. Besides, it's a big step up from having to use ed. As far as I can remember there were only vi and an early version of emacs. WordStar only came on the scene 1980 something and ran only on CP/M. > I'm just curious of it's advantages over joe or pico or any of the > others. It was available, the rest wasn't . The edge over emacs was its size and simplicity. Not to mention its weird attraction on programmers ;). Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message