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- From: zklf0b@gs144.uucp (Fergason)
- Subject: Re: IS UNIX DEAD? (long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.224908.25332@hou.amoco.com>
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- References: <BxKM0t.1xH@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BxKtvw.J7v@unix.amherst.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 22:49:08 GMT
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- In article <BxKtvw.J7v@unix.amherst.edu> djweisbe@unix.amherst.edu (David Weisberger) writes:
- >Paul Prescod (papresco@napier.uwaterloo.ca) wrote:
- >
- >: If you launch an editor from VI, that editor should be a wordprocessor. If
- >: it is vi, vi should be in wordprocess mode. If it doesn't, that is a flaw.
- >:
- >Not to split hairs, but ha ir we go: there is a difference between an
- >editor and a wordprocessor. vi is an editor. Hey, I even found DOS's
- >edlin rapid and effective for making specific, small-scale changes.
- >vi and other editors have that advantage, among others.
- >
- >: If help does nothing at the command prompt. That is a flaw.
- >:
- >This is true.
-
- Jumping in the discussion like any true Usenet reader, usually
- in the middle of the thread, in which I missed the beginning
- and will probably miss the end:
-
- I disagree. Not having used too many OS's, I can only recall 2
- that the help command did something. Vax VMS, and Microsoft Dos 5.
- I take that back, i just thought of Wylbur/MVSX, and VM/CMS. I believe
- help does something on those systems.
-
- Why should help do something at the command prompt? I would much, much
- rather have the hardcopy manual in my hand. While online help might
- be nice, I really just do not see its absence as an inherent flaw.
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- Kelly
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