On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 08:38:09AM -0500, Ian Marlier wrote:
From: Bjorn Tore Sund
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 14:33:22 +0100 (CET) To: Anders Johansson Cc: 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!
I'm 22. I got my first computer when I was 17 / 18. I'm just good with history. -Allen
- Ian
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