Porting UNIX Applications to the Mac

[William H. Jefferys]

In article <981 at cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>, wetter at tybalt.caltech.edu.Caltech.Edu (Pierce T. Wetter) writes:
> In article <15372 at mordor.ARPA> jdb at mordor.UUCP (John Bruner) writes:
> >  I am far more productive with "vi" on UNIX than with any of
> >the mouse-based editors I've run across on the Mac. 
> 
>   Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha HaHa Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

I am in 100% agreement with this. In my opinion, vi is the *worst*
screen-oriented editor that I have ever had the misfortune of using.
I am always finding new "features" that I wasn't aware of. Unfortunately,
the new features I discover usually wipe out random pieces of text
in mysterious ways that are difficult to reverse.

It all comes of trying to make "ed" look like a screen editor. What
a kludge!

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