[sf-lug] Today's topics and an anniversary-of-sorts for Vi

[aaronco36]

Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote in [01]:
> Linux Voice:
> maddog: believes in the Rise of Open Hardware  Hope he is correct.
> CherryTree and Piggydb - outline editors
> Filesystem tools


Speaking about editors-in-general, according to the vi Wikipedia page 
[02], this month of May is the 40th anniversary of the official "vi"-named 
release of the selfsame editor...
-------------------------- Quoting [02] --------------------------
It was not until version 2.0 of ex, released as part of Second BSD in May 
1979 that the editor was installed under the name "vi" (which took users 
straight into ex's visual mode),[03] and the name by which it is known 
today. Some current implementations of vi can trace their source code 
ancestry to Bill Joy; others are completely new, largely compatible 
reimplementations.
------------------------------------------------------------------

Further information on the background and current status of Vi is at [04].


jim <jim at well.com> wrote at [05] regarding appropriate changes to the 
SF-LUG website:
> the sf-lug web page should be updated.
> NOTE the web page is hand-coded HTML (by me, circa 2007).
> I can make basic content changes, but I have no clue how to re-write the
> page to be mobile-compliant. I am guessing that narrowing the page
> width might improve mobile perception somewhat.
>
> I have access, but will have trouble re-discovering my password.

Another vi-related "anniversary" of sorts is jim's SF-LUG thread he 
started this month four years and ~two weeks ago entitled "bash shell 
script tutorial and vi (and vim) starters cheat sheet" [06]. In that 
selfsame thread of May 2015, Michael P *clearly* expresses his disdain for 
using vim as opposed to Vi[07] (also see his writeup of this at [08].)

FWIW and possibly related to jim's having trouble re-discovering his 
password as per the above, the www.systemateka.com links in [06] (and 
maybe *all* systemateka webpages) seem to have been hijacked by 
[presumably>] Chinese hackers/cybersquatters :-(

Getting directly back to the subject of Vi, Michael P also put out a very 
useful OpenDocument Presentation Document Format (ODP) slideshow entitled 
"vi basic introduction through advanced tips and "tricks" "[09] and across 
the Bay at City College of SF is CCSF's single-webpage "UNIX: vi Editor" 
tutorial[10].
And then there is always Thomer M. Gil's interesting, one and only VI 
LOVERS HOME PAGE meta site[11].

-A

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REFERENCES
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[01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014097.html
[02]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
[03]http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/2BSD/
[04]http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
[05]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2019q2/014099.html
[06]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q2/011204.html
[07]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q2/011206.html
[08]http://www.rawbw.com/~mp/linux/vim/vim_annoyances.txt
[09]http://www.rawbw.com/~mp/unix/vi/vi.odp
[10]https://www.ccsf.edu/Pub/Fac/vi.html
[11]https://web.archive.org/web/20000616064103/http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html
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aaronco36 at sdf.org
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