The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> On 17/02/2021 10:20, druck wrote:
> > On 16/02/2021 19:15, TimS wrote:
> >> Even vi has a manual that is 127 pages long. A *manual*? For a fucking
> >> *editor*? What are these guys smoking?
> >
> > That's because it's an enormously powerful text manipulation program,
>
> because it hasn't got a gui, it needs to be. Remember Vi was first
> written for teletypes. You know. Go to line 32 and replace 'grsx' with
> 'grrr'
>
vi mostly certainly *wasn't* "written for teletypes", it's name gives
the lie to this - vi[sual editor].  The editor for teletypes was ed, and
if you called vi as ex you got an extended version of ed.


There are GUI versions of vi, the most widely used is probably gvim but
the one I use (if I want a GUI) is xvile.

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Chris Green
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