Interesting vi bug/feature

[Robert Viduya]

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> 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.
> 

Sure, vi may not have all the features necessary for doing neat things
like bit-mapped fonts and what not, but as a programmer's editor, it's
simplicity is a boon.  I can code a lot faster using an editor like vi
because it doesn't get in my way.  I don't have to remember what ump-
teen million keys on my terminal do because vi doesn't have that many
key functions.  What key functions it does have are more applicable towards
a programming environment rather than a text processing.  Who needs to
worry about whether they should put keywords in italic and identifiers
in boldface when they've got a deadline facing them on a 5000+ line
program?

As a text processing editor, vi isn't too hot.  That much I'll grant you.
But for programming, it's pretty hard to beat.  There's only one type
of editor I know of that can outclass vi in program editing and those are
the CPU-crunching, language-sensitive context-editor.

I would like to see multi-window/multi-file capabilities added to vi, however.

				robert
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Robert Viduya
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I fly with vi.