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From: jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: nice Free editor ???
Date: 23 Jun 1995 18:28:08 GMT
Organization: Dynamic Matrix Control 713/313-5000
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Chris Bitmead (chrisb@stork.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au) wrote:
: In article <3rifiu$5l8@tattoo.sccsi.com> jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie) writes:
: >Matthew Moran (matmor@safeco.com) wrote:
: >
: >: I am looking for a nice free editor that I can use instead of the VI uility ?
: >: Any clue where I can find one - Motif would be nice.
: >
: >ED is a public domain editor patterned after DEC VMS' EDT editor, but
: >with many extensions, such as box-mode cut-and-paste, editing of binary
: >files, remote editing via ftp, and a built-in news reader. Since it is
: >patterned after VMS' EDT editor, it includes keystroke-level journaling,
: >to prevent loss of work due to a system crash or power failure. One
: >difference between EDT and ED is that ED doesn't make the cut buffer reverse
: >video yet.
: Ahh. /bin/ed. Everybody should learn how to use that.
: :-) for the humour impaired.
Thanks for the smily, but just in case the humor impaired don't pick up
on that:
ED != /bin/ed
That's why the ED posting contained the following:
"ED should not be confused with the ed line-mode editor on some dialects
of Unix. ED may be installed under any name: edt, dwim."
The authors of ED were going to have a contest to come up with a unique
name for their product, but never got around to it before one of them,
Rush Record, passed away.
We set up an alias of 'edt' on our unix systems for the engineers here who
work primarily on OpenVMS and DOS/Windoze.
--Jerry,
Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie jleslie@dmccorp.com gleslie@isvsrv.enet.dec.com
Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation (my opinions are my own)
something on a lighter note...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.admin
From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <dmitry@parsy.spb.su>
Subject: More & more people choose `vi'
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Date: Wed, 1 Jun 1994 16:53:25 GMT
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MORE AND MORE PEOPLE CHOOSE `VI'. CASE OF STUDY
This article is just a part of a fundamental opus devoted to investi-
gation of UNIX. Scientists of the future will read UNIX's manual pages
with the same feel of a light perplexity that comes to us when we turn
the pages of `Witch Hammer' (some people feel it right now). This work
should help them in their heavy task.
Let us consider a very obscure question - why people like `vi' and
why it looks like `vi'. Certainly, there must be lots of convincing rea-
sons in deleting a character by pressing three keys `ESC', `x', `i' in-
stead of single `del'. We should immediately reject opinions like `peo-
ple search for obstacles to overwhelm them' as unscientific ones. Con-
sidering this issue more thoroughly we can find at least four approaches
to it.
(o) Astronomical point of view. As we know most of programmers work
putting their legs on the system block. (If you have a `tower'
just move it from your table to the floor, you'll feel the
difference!). To achieve maximal comfort legs should be arranged
along the magnetic lines. Well, let us take a look on the key-
board laying over your mmmm... stomach. In this position a line
connecting keys `x' and `ESC' points right to the North star. At
the same time `x' - `i' axis indicates the equinoctial point.
(o) Magical approach. After active usage of described above `ESC',
`x', `i' key sequence everybody comes to the conclusion that
SOMETHING'S WRONG and enters another sequence - `ESC', `:', `q',
`!'. As we know `ESC' abbreviates the word `escutcheon'. If we
consider keys `x', `i', `:', `q' and `!' we can notice that they
organize a magic pentagram. It is clear that multiple drawing
the pentagram protects us from the cruel daemons hidding in the
CPU.
(o) Medical reasons. Clinical researches show that using `vi' keeps
tonus of your fingers at the level of a violonist, that prevents
a gout. However, you should be careful working at home. Be shure
that the door to the chield room is tightly closed unless you
want to hear from your son the sentences you usually address to
`vi'.
(o) Psycho-analysis. Sexual instinct...
******
(for specialists only)
In conclusion I would like to state that we are currently at the very
beginning of understanding deep laws ruling over the world. Some impor-
tant questions remain unexplored. For example, why are we using `ESC',
`d', `d', `i' to delete a line rather than handy `ESC', `f', `d', `h',
`s', `t', `h', `n', `v', `b', `i'?
Never mind, `vi' should overcome some day!
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