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I learned visual (the REAL name for vi) from man vi.
The name vi came from the alias students were setting in their dot files.
Emacs is a better option than Microsoft but could use a better editor.

Fortunately, the Rand editor died.
It used most of the vi commands but I stead of escape to go to command
mode, it used the same letters as vi but in control chars.

It left lots of trash files behind after sessions and if it exited
unexpectedly, the next time that it lit up, it would report that the system
had crashed, which would make my support line ring.

"The system is down"
"No, it's not"
"Oh yes it is, the system says so"


I am not aware of any vi package with Bills original code.
It appears to have been completely rewritten in several versions including
vim and nvi.

I don't know the current bad port tree well, so it might still be there,
but none of Bills code remains in either Deb or RPM trees that I can find.


On Sat, Mar 9, 2019, 11:52 paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

> The reason I use EMACS is a simple byproduct of where I was in my career
> at the time these became widely available.   Mid-80's I  was already out of
> school and busy working when I got my first Unix workstation.
>
> Vi had two drawbacks:  Very limited documentation available at that time.
> If I was still in college, there would probably have been a classmate or
> someone in the dorm as an informal coach with lots of tips and shortcuts.
> Also, I was always getting mixed up in which mode I was in. Was typing into
> my document or typing commands to vi?
>
> EMACS, on the other hand has no modes. EMACS has an extensive
> documentation package and the "apropos" function to give appropriate
> suggestions.  The documentation was to complete that I could just show it
> to some of the people in technical writing.  An hour or so later, they were
> on their way.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 9, 2019, 11:30:38 AM PST, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <
> deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 2019, at 11:18 AM, Michael Paoli <
> Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dang, they didn't include [n]vi.  But I guess in fairness, there are a
> > lot of flavors/variations of vi - and they only covered one, and
> > these days, vim is most commonly used/available among them.  Likewise
> > they just cover one flavor of emacs, etc.
>
> Yeah, it’d be interesting to see more breakdown. But I had to laugh at how
> hard Java got ragged on.
>
> "On the other end of the spectrum is Eclipse: it appears that someone
> using either Vim or Emacs is more than twice as likely to pass our
> technical interview as an Eclipse user.”
>
> "I was surprised to find one huge outlier here: Eclipse! Oddly enough, it
> appears that even after we pre-screen Eclipse users for their programming
> skills, they still get offers from only half as many of the onsite
> interviews we send them to compared with the rest of our population.”
>
> Also of note:
>
> "Hey, what happened to PHP? As a former PHP developer myself, I found it
> interesting that it’s now just a small drop in the “other” bucket. As one
> of the interviewers here, I’ve personally never seen anyone interview in
> PHP yet (although others have).”
>
> I have interviewed in PHP, just not in at least ten years.
>
>
> Deirdre
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