richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) (03/13/89)
bogstad@smoke.BRL.MIL (William Bogstad ) writes: > Just out of curiosity ,but what particular feature or non-feature >of vi makes it not a WYSIWYG editor? With vi you get exactly what you >see on your screen no more and no less. > Bill Bogstad >BTW, I don't use vi. I was thinking in particular of the C and cw commands, which immediately place a $ at the end of the line/word. Until you type past the $, or hit the ESC key, What You See IS'NT What You Get. My intent here was not to flame vi or to enter a religious war, I just consider it unreasonable that the only "standard" editor shipped with most unix systems is vi. -- Richard Nuttall | ukc!stc!datlog!torch!richard Torch Technology Ltd. | richard@torch.co.uk Cambridge England | 0223 841000 X 309
beattie@visenix.UUCP (Brian Beattie) (03/16/89)
In article <253@torch.UUCP> richard@torch.UUCP (Richard Nuttall) writes:
[My intent here was not to flame vi or to enter a religious war,
[I just consider it unreasonable that the only "standard" editor shipped
[with most unix systems is vi.
[
Actually SYSV is shipped with three editors: vi/vedit, ex/edit, and ed.
:-) :-)
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