'vi' is driving me crazy
Roger Oberholtzer
roger
Wed Dec 29 15:34:06 PST 2004
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 23:27, Alan Jackson wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:42:05 -0500 (EST)
> "A. Khattri" <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
>
> > Learning vi is useful because vi runs on almost every platform known to
> > man (even my PDA!) - so if I ever find myself (god forbid!) working in
> > Solaris or AIX, I can still get stuff done. I even have vim/gvim available
> > on my sole Windows box...
>
> Years ago at a trade show, a friend went up to a terminal in the Cray booth
> (back when Cray was a *big deal*) and typed "vi". Sure enough.
There was an article in the Stockholm paper today about the various OS
in new telephones. The Trolltech/Montevista offering looked good. But,
does it contain vi? Having it in my phone would make the technology
complete.
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