Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Ian Marlier <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:33:22 +0100 (CET)
> To: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [SLE] Gnome disappointment
> 
> 
> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Anders Johansson wrote:
> 
>>>> He told me back when he did this that Vi would only show one line at a
>>>> time and you'd have like thousands of lines of code and have to check
>>>> something a few lines up so you'd have to give the command to view it up
>>>> in that area or something.
>>> 
>>> I worked on Xenix in 1981 using a Heath/Zenith ASCII terminal and VI did
>>> full screen.
>> 
>> ed does one line at a time. vi is ed with multiline display, more or less
> 
> Original vi is a front-end to ex, not ed.  This is one of the things
> that made it the one full-screen editor which could work on documents
> much bigger than what you could hold in RAM, it was/is actually a
> line-editor which acted like a file editor.
> 
> Things were a lot more fun in those days...

You know, with each e-mail in this thread, the same thought comes to the
front of my mind...

y'all be old!

<grin!>

- Ian