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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Subject: Re: [FreeBSD] Crypt option for vi ?
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Date: Fri, 17 Jun 1994 05:30:28 GMT
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Mark Newton (newton@cleese.apana.org.au) wrote:
: The FreeBSD 1.0 vi was actually "elvis" by Steve Kirkendall.  It's
: another complete rewrite with no SysV contamination, but it has a number
: of "flavour" differences that some vi users don't like much.

: Myself?  I'm an Emacs man, so I don't care which one is on my system :-)

So what happened to the original VI?  Did Bill Joy take it over to Sun
and trademark it there?

And I too am a Emacs man.  If I can't get Emacs, I want MicroEMACS.




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Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  rmk@bedford.progress.com