From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Jun 17 09:15:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16877 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (s205m64.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16864 for ; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:15:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA05162 for newbies@freebsd.org; Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:14:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:14:58 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199806171614.JAA05162@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: re: vi Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 21:24:12 -0700 >From: Tim Gerchmez >No. The simple fact is, I don't want to right now, and don't yet see the >point in doing so. Personally, I believe this thread got heated because I >basically insulted an original, holy Unix text editor.... Uhhmmm.... :-) No. vi isn't "original". It was written (essentially) by Bill Joy, while he was at UC Berkeley, as a "glass TTY" front-end for ex. I suspect that you don't really want to think too hard about what Ken, Dennis, Brian, Joe, Rob, & the rest of the Bell Labs gang used to actually write the original code.... As for UNIX being "stuck in the 1960s"... well, please note that the UNIX "epoch" -- time zero, so to speak -- is midnight (0000 hrs.) 01 January, 1970 GMT ("UTC" for folks less old-fashioned than I). :-), david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message