'vi' is driving me crazy

[A. Khattri]

On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Net Llama! wrote:

> right, and vi has been completely unmaintained since that time?

I would say its been maintained in the sense that its kept faithful to its
original interface and keystrokes. There's still no standard that I know
of for text editors - you find one editor you like and use it.

Other implementations chose to add extra features but kept the original
keystrokes intact for compatibility (elvis, vim, etc etc).

There is no standard.
Some people would consider in non-intuitive.
Some people would consider it obsolete.

So what?



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 [via the technical term `virtual memory',
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