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... Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no