On 17/02/2021 12:00, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>
vi was a superstructure pasted on ed as far as I can recall

It was never designed as a CRT based editor. It is 100% line oriented

I'll bet my sweet bippy is was a line editor adated for use on a 24x80
terminal


>
> 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.
>
Whatever wrecks your boat.  Why on earth use vi in GUI?

Its already crap in a terminal compared with Joe.

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