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- From: geoff@ugc.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
- Subject: Re: vi and resizing windows
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.052152.8416@ugc.uucp>
- Organization: UGC Consulting Ltd.
- References: <1992Jul19.002521.8765@hyphen.com> <biL+!aNt@twinsun.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 05:21:52 GMT
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- In article <biL+!aNt@twinsun.com> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:
- >dwight@hyphen.com (Dwight Ernest) writes:
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- >>You'd think that in all that time SOMEONE would have taught the
- >>SunOS version of vi to respond properly to SIGWINCH.
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- >I have this fantasy of Bill Joy making some gee-whiz hypermedia
- >presentation at a conference and some programmer from a major customer
- >getting up at the end of the talk and asking him when Sun will start
- >fixing Joy's 15-year-old text editor.
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- Having heard Bill Joy give a presentation in which he said that
- he would like to see vi I'm not sure you would make any impression on him
- with this. As I recall he mentioned that the code in vi was pretty
- un maintainable.
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- Geoff Coleman
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