From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 16 20:13:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00530 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:13:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from voyager.planb.com.au (voyager.planb.com.au [203.35.172.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00524 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 1998 20:13:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kevin@planb.net.au) Received: from fossil.planb.com.au (fossil.planb.com.au [203.35.172.145]) by voyager.planb.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA09352; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 15:13:14 +1100 (EST) Received: by fossil.planb.com.au with Microsoft Mail id <01BE29C7.7CF34120@fossil.planb.com.au>; Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:13:58 +1100 Message-ID: <01BE29C7.7CF34120@fossil.planb.com.au> From: Kevin Sheehan To: "'ML Duke'" Cc: "newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: vi & word documents Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 14:13:57 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id UAA00526 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ML Duke writes: >So says my Unix mentor as well. With a bit of background with a >truly powerful text editing system-Xerox Viewpoint w/Document Editor-- >from which billy & boys stole much but are not even close to catching >up with yet--the power in vi is intuitively obvious. Sorry, but I couldn't help but notice the Viewpoint / Globalview ref. It would be closer to the truth to say Xerox gave it away than had it stolen wouldn't it? Do you still use it? It's a pitty MS and others didn't take more from it... makes me wish I still had a 6085 :-) ... I'll let you get back to the vi discussion.... Rgs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message