From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 10:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54A537B407 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:57:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from mutt.home.net (1Cust82.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.82]) by harrier.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA12229; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:57:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5CI0X700854; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:00:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 13:00:32 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: dochawk@psu.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vi/ex lineage Message-ID: <20010612130032.B593@mutt.home.net> References: <20010609094110.A477@mutt.home.net> <200106121609.f5CG9sb49134@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106121609.f5CG9sb49134@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:09:54PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD mutt.home.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE 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 On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 12:09:54PM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > David delivered, > > > > Here is the family tree: > > > > ed > > ex sed > > vi > > vim elvis [other vi like editors] > > is it? weren't ex and vi (ok, and view, but *noone* uses that anymore, > do they?) always the same program, just with two interfaces depending > upon the name under which it was invoked? I know this was the case by > the early 80's, but was there a vi-less ex at some point? > > > hawk Well I assume that ex "command line" was most likely written before the Visual Interface... I could be wrong and you do have a point :). Dave > > > -- > Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign > dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail > These opinions will not be those of X and postings > Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message