[ale] Vim is 20!

Rich Faulkner rfaulkner at 34thprs.org
Thu Nov 3 09:40:53 EDT 2011


So...that means that Emacs pre-dates Vi?  I was working on Emacs back
when I worked at Sequent Computing Systems in 1988/89....wrote a couple
of manuals on it.  Ran UNIX and DYNIX in those days...kinda miss those
old days sometimes back in Beaverton, Oregon.  It was there that I first
went online as a matter of fact....[Rich starts tripping down memory
lane and falls into the ditch at the side of the road]  I will offer
that I am not a fan of Vi/Vim and trended to Emacs.  Then found my way
to Notepad (ugh!) and now gedit...(products of driving Windows from
1995-2008).  

Back to work....


On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 13:28 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:

> The first time I used vi (on real AT&T UNIX SVR3) I ran the tutorial and it made me type a short thing to test my skills.
> 
> What I typed started:
> 
> "VI stands for "visual editor" because the people who wrote it don't know how to abbreviate properly..."
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Geoffrey Myers
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 9:02 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] Vim is 20!
> 
> Jim Kinney wrote:
> > Yesterday's /.
> > Joy wrote vi not vim.
> 
> Duh..., thanks.
> 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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