[ale] Vim is 20!

[Rich Faulkner]

Yeah, that's what I was thinking...guess I read the original posting
wrong...need more coffee.

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 09:48 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at 34thprs.org> wrote:
> > 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....
> 
> vi and emacs were both written in 1976[1][2].  "vim", on the other
> hand, was written in 1991, which is what this is about.  "vim" = "vi
> improved".
> 
> 
> [1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vi
> [2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emacs
> 
> 


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