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- From: dag@ossi.com (Darren Alex Griffiths)
- Subject: Re: vi and resizing windows
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 22:27:08 GMT
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- geoff@ugc.uucp (Geoff Coleman) writes:
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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.
-
- I remember once he claimed, in the distant past, that he had fixed up vi
- and added support for windowing. That's the old style windows on dumb
- terminals, I suppose you would have had multiple files on the screen at once
- and could switch between them, all from your little old vt100. Unfortunately
- his disk crashed and there was no backup, I guess he walked away in
- disgust, and I can't blame him.
-
- Cheers,
- --dag
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