21 Jul
2005
21 Jul
'05
1:41 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:50, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote:
Simply because. Because I do not like ed.
I want to have useful and user friendly system. To use ed, only because
it is the oldest editor, does not make any sense for me.
I appreciate ed, because of sed, because sed has some similarity to ed
and is extremely useful as a tool.
If you have a look at the more modern *BSD, you'll see that vi contains ed
and ex. It should be possible to backport that to V7 and likewise to
Coherent.
Uz.ytkownik Tim Newsham napisa?:
<snip>
"vi". Editing with "cat" is
possible but not very useful. I am not going
to learn "ed".
Why? Unix is not about ed, Unix is about unlimited
possibilities of adding
new software , new applications or new editors, it makes Unix beautiful
that it can develop and not editor ed.If ed were all Unix has, it would
not survive.
I hope You accept that someone else can have different favourite
editors. I prefer vi, or even more vim, which is perfect editor.Of
course in the case of emulator missing user friendly editor is not a
problem, because I can edit under Coherent and then build under
emulator.It is good to have a choice, and Unix offers it.
As I said, because I like vi more than ed. Do You suggest , that James
should invest giant amount of time into porting V7 to x86/x64 and than
after use only one editor , namely ed ? As if it was prohibited to
develop another editor ?
<snip>
Did You
try to port "vi" to Unix Version 7 system ? I can
Why!?
Andrzej
<snip>
Wesley Parish
--
Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish
-----
Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?
You ask, what is the most important thing?
Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.