> There is no reason why anyone would've even _written_ vi much less > use it for anything.
*grin* Actually, it was written to add the visual stuff to the existing ex editor (or was it ed? No, I think ex; ed didn't even have a prompt). That's why the commands are cryptic; those are what ex used. The cursor movement (hjkl) are from the old terminals which had the left, up, down and right arrows on those keys; it's all explainable, and probably made sense at the time, especially to the sort of people who were working on Unix. That said, I have to admit to liking vi and preferring it over any other editor I've used on Unix. I even have the cygwin and Watcom versions installed on Windows and DOS machines. Regards, Ben A L Jemmett. (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/) To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
