Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.

To: Jim <jim@laney.edu>, James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.
From: Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:02:55 -0400
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Jim <jim@laney.edu> wrote:
> Why? I think you see vi as I see gpm and they see mc: as an "essential 
> convenience".

vi has the advantage of being backward compatible into the early '80s.

The only unix editors which vie with vi for standardness are ed (the
unix standard), and emacs (backwards compatible into the early '70s).

-- 
Raul

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