editors in rescue mode

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Mon Aug 11 19:56:56 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 15:09 -0400, Jorge Luis wrote:
> > > 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

I think you are correct.  Mark Horton was involved in the development as
I recall.  My old brain gets them confused.
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