On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:02:55AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential > > convenience". > > vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s. > > The only unix editors which vie with vi for standardness are ed (the > unix standard), and emacs (backwards compatible into the early '70s).
Just for fun, from the the standard emacs distribution: - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed - -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi - -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs :-) -- David Welton http://www.efn.org/~davidw Debian GNU/Linux - www.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
