What's with the website?

[Nathan Cerny]

HAHA  Nice.  I personally don't like VI anyway - for general text editing I
use nano (quiet you ><  I KNOW nano lacks most of the features of ANY other
text editor...)...much less to remember and better interface, and I'm
usually not editing 500 page documents at the command line  :)

The quote is just one that I saw on some linux site or another and found
funny...and thought it fit in well with the conversation :)

I do appreciate the history though, I didn't know that!

On 9/6/07, Ed Allen <era at jimani.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 03:22:45PM -0500, Nathan Cerny wrote:
> >
> > "Real Men use VI."
>
> <Geezer mode>
> vi is a line oriented editor 'ex' with a screen update interface tacked
> on the front as the vi-mode of the original editor 'ex'.
>
> 'ex' stands for "EXpanded" because the students at Berkley expanded the
> AT&T editor 'ed' with more commands and a more consistent syntax.
>
> Bill Joy, one of the original Sun founders, added the screen updating
> code and switched to "raw mode", meaning that each keypress is sent to
> the computer as you type instead of waiting till the ENTER key is pressed.
>
> So much history for such a short thought as...
>
> Intel once supplied a charater oriented editor called 'speed' as part of
> their Isis development system which I once used to do something I doubt
> 'vi' can be coerced into without major programming effort.
>
> I captured a hex dump, similar to 'od -x', to a file and then used 'speed'
> on that file to produce assemly language statements to replicate the 4K
> byte ROM as as an "include file" of our standard build.
>
> All of this is meant to point out that even if you have a favorite editor
> it might fall miserably short on a particular task.  If the person you
> are offending knows just one of those imbalances then you could wind up
> looking foolish.
> </Geezer mode>
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