Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:00:32 -0500 From: David Leimbach <dleimbac@earthlink.net> To: dochawk@psu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi/ex lineage Message-ID: <20010612130032.B593@mutt.home.net> In-Reply-To: <200106121609.f5CG9sb49134@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:09:54PM -0400 References: <20010609094110.A477@mutt.home.net> <200106121609.f5CG9sb49134@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:09:54PM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > David delivered, > > > > Here is the family tree: > > > > ed > > ex sed > > vi > > vim elvis [other vi like editors] > > is it? weren't ex and vi (ok, and view, but *noone* uses that anymore, > do they?) always the same program, just with two interfaces depending > upon the name under which it was invoked? I know this was the case by > the early 80's, but was there a vi-less ex at some point? > > > hawk Well I assume that ex "command line" was most likely written before the Visual Interface... I could be wrong and you do have a point :). Dave > > > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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