'vi' is driving me crazy

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
>On 12/27/2004 03:01 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:25 -0800, Net Llama! wrote:
>>
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>>>right, and vi has been completely unmaintained since that time?
>>
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>>Yikes. Are you implying that the commands be changed? TG for open
>>source. As in, I'll keep my version thank you very much!
>
>Not at all, but the excuse that it was set this way a long time ago, and 
>that's why it shouldn't be changed is silly.

No.  What's silly is to make the millions of people who know how to use vi
now change so that it's easier for people who're too lazy to RTFM a bit can
feel comfortable with it.

One of my biggest complaints about open source software is the tendency to
change working programs because some programmer with lots of hubris and
little experience thinks it would be ``better'', thereby breaking programs
that have been working for years.

Bill
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