From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] User Interface
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:49:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <057801c12c1d$755a2400$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200108232135.RAA13030@augusta.math.psu.edu>
> Whoops, you are correct, Boyd. I just logged into a VAX running
> 4.3BSD, and saw that happen (oddly enough, there's one at CMU you can
> login to as guest. Who knew?).
i was always referring to the original code. i think i only read
it 'cos i wanted to know why it was so broken. i don't think i
ever hacked it. reading the main loop was more than enough.
i see my dumb cable provider managed to send my reply 3 times.
> However, it looks like newer versions of vi fix the problem.
you fix that problem with rm(1).
> I'll agree though; a purely modal editor is just, well, weird.
no, a purely broken editor is, well, a piece of junk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-23 21:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-20 15:02 Re[2]: " anothy
2001-08-20 21:01 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-20 21:10 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-22 21:25 ` Matthew Hannigan
2001-08-23 2:24 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 15:04 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-23 20:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 20:17 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-23 21:35 ` Dan Cross
2001-08-23 21:49 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-08-24 13:04 ` David Lukes
2001-08-23 20:17 ` Boyd Roberts
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-08-23 15:35 Vincent van Gelderen
2001-08-17 11:17 forsyth
2001-08-16 1:00 okamoto
2001-08-16 5:56 ` Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian
2001-08-15 14:20 bwc
2001-08-15 17:13 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-15 13:27 Peter Bosch
2001-08-15 12:46 rob pike
2001-08-15 16:35 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-14 17:58 bwc
2001-08-14 19:09 ` andrey mirtchovski
2001-08-14 17:13 anothy
2001-08-15 17:06 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-14 16:53 forsyth
[not found] <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
2001-08-14 12:54 ` rob pike
2001-08-14 15:01 ` James A. Robinson
2001-08-16 13:45 ` phaet0n
2001-08-20 8:57 ` Randolph Fritz
2001-08-14 10:02 nigel
2001-08-14 10:27 ` Lucio De Re
2001-08-14 12:45 ` pac
2001-08-15 8:34 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 0:59 ` Micah Stetson
2001-08-15 23:25 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-16 8:28 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
[not found] ` <200108151619.MAA07420@augusta.math.psu.edu>
2001-08-16 8:28 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 10:26 ` Re[2]: " Matt
2001-08-16 10:43 ` Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-16 19:29 ` Steve Kilbane
2001-08-16 20:40 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-08-17 8:50 ` mark powers
2001-08-17 8:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-08-14 9:46 Eric de Redelijkheid
2001-08-14 13:15 ` John Murdie
2001-08-15 13:23 ` William K. Josephson
2001-08-16 21:04 ` Boyd Roberts
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