On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:43:09 +0100, "Sander van Dijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/19/07, Uriel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So are you saying that vi doesn't suck because some versions have >> become so incredibly bloated and out of control that instead of using >> an external mountain of junk from the 70's, have internalized the >> mountain of junk and now it is part of the same executable as the text >> editor? > > No, that's not what I'm saying. Vi implementations don't need to > internalize the mess that terminal (emulators) are, just the stuff > that the original vi (ab)used terminals for (such as cursor position). > Such stuff used to be implemented on top of a borken terminal, but it > doesn't have to be. > Like I said before, keeping track of where inserted text goes, what > text to replace, etc. is the task of the editor. Just like vi, ed does > this too, except more roughly, on the (rather arbitrary) line level. > Ed doesn't include "a mountain of junk" to keep track of where to > insert text (at the line level), and vi implementations don't (need > to) include a mountain of junk for that task either.
What a senseless discussion (IMHO). If you don't like vi - Don't use it. If you don't like ed - Don't use it. If you don't like wmii - Don't use it. If you like windows - Use it. But, who cares something that offtopic? This thread is imho a bunch of noise polluting the wmii ML. Maybe it's time to update my /dev/null filter, i dunno. Just my 2 cents, -timo -- Timo Benk - Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ICQ ID: #414944731 PGP Public Key: http://m28s01.vlinux.de/timo_benk_gpg_key.asc
