From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <057801c12c1d$755a2400$3cf7c6d4@SOMA> From: "Boyd Roberts" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <20010820150226.534D619A45@mail.cse.psu.edu> <200108232135.RAA13030@augusta.math.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] User Interface MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 23:49:17 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e54f6d4a-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.