Interesting vi bug/feature

[Dave Martindale]

In article <64 at mit-athena.ARPA> martillo at mit-athena.ARPA (Joaquim Martillo) writes:
>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.

Why is the net so cluttered with bragging?

	Dave Martindale