On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 08:54 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 2:25 PM Joe Zeff <joe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On 7/19/22 11:03, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> > > > But I definitely didn't use vim, I used emacs :-).
> > > Heretic! Unclean! Unclean!
> >
> > I've never understood why so many people worship vi. If I need to
> > edit
> > a file in a terminal, I use Mork's Editor.
> >
>
> On early unix systems, terminals were the only user interface. At
> that
> time, vi was a big improvement over ed. Many early unix users
> learned vi, and now still find it available by default on most linux
> systems as well as macOS. Some modern editors are overly
> helpful and will replace ASCII characters with look-alike glyphs
> from Unicode fonts (opening and closing quotes, different types
> of space characters). Recently I'm finding many "bugs" are caused
> by these look-alike characters in ASCII configuration files edited
> by users. In vi I trust.
We couldn't even run vi at the time on our PDP-11/45 with 6th Edition
UNIX. IIRC it was too big for the address space. I wrote my PhD thesis
in Nroff using George Coulouris' em ('editor for mortals'), the
precursor to ex, which eventually became vi. It had a single-line
display but unlike ed you could see what you were doing.
poc
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