Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 11:02:55AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> 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).
Just for fun, from the the standard emacs distribution:
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
- -rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
- -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
:-)
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