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Date:      Thu, 5 Sep 1996 17:03:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
To:        peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
Cc:        kline@tera.com, peter@taronga.com, doc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: vi tutorial
Message-ID:  <199609060003.RAA08398@athena.tera.com>
In-Reply-To: <199609052316.SAA18045@bonkers.taronga.com> from Peter da Silva at "Sep 5, 96 06:16:53 pm"
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According to Peter da Silva:
> > 		I think the reason that the original authors of
> > 		the helpfile used `mode' was that Bill Joy  and
> > 		Mark Horton used the term when they published their
> > 		original paper on vi.
> 
> "An Introduction to Display Editing with VI"
> 
> I know. That tradition has done more to confuse people about VI than
> anything else in the program or documentation.
> 
> *sigh*
> 

	:-)

	Really how I learned vi was the same way as most of us
	with roots at Cal:: hacking away at Cory into the wee
	hours and asking somebody else for _their_ tricks.

	gary
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