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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 2:15 pm, Paul Cartwright wrote:
>> vi has colon commands ":" just like ED, and I use them often. There are
>> no better DOS editors than VI, but we all have our opinions, and you
>> are welcome to yours. That's exactly why there are so many editors out
>> there to use. I personally don't like EMACS, but that's because I
>> already learned VI.
> While as an EMACSIAN I think you are a heretic :-)
> The ":" commands are part of vi's ex mode. 
> Bill Joy 1984.
> "I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard. I think one of the 
> interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as 
> mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things about EMACS, 
> though, is its programmability and the modelessness".
> http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html
> This article gives a lot of history on Vi.

All that's needed now, is to add OpenDocument support.  ;-)