editors in rescue mode

[Jorge Luis]

> > Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:
> a ":" in vi, it drops you to what is essentially the ex editor command
> line.  ex is an extension of ed. Mark Horton (the inventor of vi) did
> this deliberately, so all the search and regular expression power of ed
> was available in vi. Mark also invented termcap which is similar to

Um, both vi and termcap were coded by Bill Joy, then of UC Berkeley, now
of Sun Microsystems.  Legend has it that Joy wrote vi in a weekend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Termcap

Cheers,

	JL

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Jorge Luis <lists at jorge.cc>