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- From: sti@cs.hut.fi (Sami-Jaakko Tikka)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Why I love VI
- Message-ID: <STI.92Aug20232719@kuuppa.cs.hut.fi>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 20:27:45 GMT
- References: <sjreeves.920819174130@fourier.ee.eng.auburn.edu> <Bt9CEw.K42@cs.psu.edu>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: Sami.Tikka@hut.fi
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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- In-Reply-To: ward@math.psu.edu's message of 20 Aug 92 01:06:32 GMT
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- In article <Bt9CEw.K42@cs.psu.edu> ward@math.psu.edu (Brian Ward) writes:
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- > |a menu/mouse-driven version of vi? I wonder if it's even possible.
-
- > that would probably, well, not probably, definitely, make it too slow.
-
- Yes it probably would but that's not all vi's fault. At least if it
- was implemented using X Window System. But there are a lot of faster
- GUIs out there.
-
- For example I once read a paper on a window system called "8 1/2". It
- seemed nice, simple, light-weight and fast. It would be nice to get
- to try it somewhere. MacIntoshes have a lean-and-mean window system
- too. Why is X so big and slow?!?!?
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