Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:56:15 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> Cc: Manish Jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bf1783@googlemail.com Subject: Re: The question of moving vi to /bin Message-ID: <87eit7sqps.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg> (Erich Dollansky's message of "Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 %2B0800") References: <4A430505.2020909@gmail.com> <200906260820.21326.erich@apsara.com.sg> <87zlbvu7km.fsf@kobe.laptop> <200906260950.33772.erich@apsara.com.sg>
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On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich@apsara.com.sg> wrote: > On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use >> in universities. Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by > > not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those > days anymore. Heh, true. I only later found out though, when a local admin hit me in the head with a SunOS vi manual. I've lost contact with him a long time ago, but boy am I glad he pointed me at those SunOS manuals... > If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the Seventies. Ouch! :-)
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