- Good Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.
- Questions
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
- Keyboard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
- Code
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
- Mouse
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just don't like to lose what's in the window.
- Half
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.
- Complicated
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
- Expect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Interleaf is based on the formatting process.
- Doom
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- Nov 07, 2020
That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.
- Program
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- Nov 07, 2020
But with Interleaf I don't even have a spell program.
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020