Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:29:56 -0400 (EDT) From: James <dominus@minos.dyn.ml.org> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>, newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980617215814.406A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19980618101335.17364@welearn.com.au>
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On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 09:14:58AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:24:12 -0700 > > >From: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> > > > > >No. The simple fact is, I don't want to right now, and don't yet see the > > >point in doing so. Personally, I believe this thread got heated because I > > >basically insulted an original, holy Unix text editor.... > > > > Uhhmmm.... :-) > > > > No. vi isn't "original". It was written (essentially) by Bill Joy, > > while he was at UC Berkeley, as a "glass TTY" front-end for ex. > > Where does ed fit into this history? > Is ed available everywhere? I believe that ed was developed with ex. At least concurrently and in the same time period. I have seen ed on every UNIX system I have used (AIX, IRIX, Linux, OSF/1, FreeBSD, SunOS) so I am guessing that is a pretty sound yes. vi, ed, and ex are the 3 that are almost everywhere as far as I am aware. EMACS is spread around alot too, but may not be available in times of crisis due to it's size. vi, ed, and ex tend to be in /bin (or /etc) and EMACS is bigger and usually on /usr which might not be there in a time of a crisis (IE drives not mounted). James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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