The question of moving vi to /bin

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:50:31 +0800, Erich Dollansky <erich at apsara.com.sg> wrote:
> On 26 June 2009 am 09:06:49 Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> As far as 16 years back, VT220/VT320 terminals were in wide use
>> in universities.  Some of us learned our first regexp stuff by
>
> not only there, but ed was not the editor of choice even those
> days anymore.

Heh, true.  I only later found out though, when a local admin hit me in
the head with a SunOS vi manual.  I've lost contact with him a long time
ago, but boy am I glad he pointed me at those SunOS manuals...

> If I remember right, I used something like ed only in the Seventies.

Ouch! :-)