phil@amd.UUCP (Phil Ngai) (08/13/84)
Speaking of ex/vi, the current issue of Unix/world has a very interesting
interview with Bill Joy and one of the things related is how he was
putting all kinds of wonderful things into vi like windows but their
new vax didn't have a tape drive, backups weren't done, and all the new
code got "scrunched" when the machine crashed. He was so discouraged
by this he gave up, write the documentation, and hasn't touched it since.
It sort of sounds like Mark Horton is responsible for much of the
success of vi, actually.
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Incidentally, you can put comments in your .exrc file by using lines that begin with a " character. You would not need to do that if a certain missing command syntax was built in. You see, ":map" only takes two arguments, the character to map and the sequence to map it to. But, if you look at the source, you discover that space was set aside for a third field: a description field. Some versions even call an internal routine to predefine some mappings, and do set a description, e.g: :map up ^[A k Note the word "up". You can't get that in there from a map command. Alan Silverstein, hpfcla!ajs