From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 9 13:28:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nisser.com (c0039.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1671C37B407 for ; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 13:28:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Received: from nisser.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by nisser.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f59KS6J40189; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 22:28:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@nisser.com) Message-ID: <3B2286D6.58B3C504@nisser.com> Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2001 22:28:06 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eBOA - Programming the Web X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Jason Halbert , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vi References: <001201c0f113$fc324740$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > There's more to it than that. vi is very clever about minimal use of cursor > control characters during the file edit. It is possible and comfortable to > use vi to edit a file when connected to the UNIX system with no more than a > 300 baud modem connection. No it isn't . At least I've only used line editors with ASR's, both the new sleak ones and the old ones that inspired terse command names , running at up to that baudrate. But if you must, well, then you must. Still think a line editor like ed would 'redraw' a heck of a faster . Yeah, I know, the trick was to minimize screen redraws. The new tricks where you could scroll back and forth and even insert and delete lines were wonderful. > ... > be unusable. The actual editing process itself is also very fast because > vi extends the minimal character paradigm to the commands themselves, many > are no more than 2 keystrokes. Yeah, there it wins over emacs. Thanks to its ed legacy ;). Roelof -- _______________________________________________________________________ eBOAź est. 1982 http://eBOA.com/ tel. +31-58-2123014 mailto:info@eBOA.com?subject=Information_request fax. +31-58-2160293 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message