Interesting vi bug/feature

[Joaquim Martillo]

Why is the net so cluttered with discussions of vi?

Vi is an archaic editor which ATT in their infinite stupidity decided
to make the official unix editor.

I have a workstation (Blit-like but better).  I can do  block  modes  of
text  from one window to another.  Think what would happen if I tried to
do a block mode of text to a window where vi was being  run  in  command
mode.  Disaster strikes!  Emacs is primitive compared to my terminal.  I
should be able to press a key and then italic bit-maps should be put  in
my file as the italics appear on my screen.  Likewise for other fonts or
foreign character sets.  To tell the truth in five-years ascii  oriented
editors will be a bad memory.

Black holes are outta sight!