Craig Sanders writes ("Re: An 'ae' testimony"):
>i think that the solution is for ae to print the following in inverse
>text on the top line of the screen:
>
> THIS IS NOT VI. IT ONLY LOOKS SLIGHTLY LIKE IT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
>
>imo, ae's vi emulation is better than nothing...but can be quite dangerous
>if you're not aware of the fact that it isn't vi.
It's a grotesque parody, that's what it is. Basically none of the vi
commands I use work.
Examples
1. "cw" doesn't work.
2. ":wq" writes a file called "q"
3. ":ZZ" doesn't either.
On top of that, when I run it on a console mode ('cause I am doing
something in single suer mode like changing the IP address), it has a
tendency to hang my tty.
On top of *that*, I've had it mangle files pretty badly w.r.t line
wraps and end-of-line characters.
So it's gone. I make sure that removing it is one of the first things
I do after a new install.
It's lie if someone took an old Slackware CD, scratched out the label
and wrote Debian on it, and said it was the same. It wasn't what I
asked for and doesn't fill the bill, and we'd be better off not pretending.
--
Richard W Kaszeta PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
