On Wed, 2022-07-20 at 09:16 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 7/20/22 07:45, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
>
> And because you had to do that decades ago new Linux users today
> should
> be using vi instead of all the more user friendly editors available
> for
> use in a terminal?
I don't know how you draw that conclusion from what is merely a
reminiscence. I use vi because I'm familiar with it. I've also used
emacs extensively and like it. There are plenty of alternatives and no-
one is being forced to use any of them. I think the Fedora Workstation
default is now nano, for what it's worth.
poc
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