From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wes.parish@paradise.net.nz (Wesley Parish) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 19:41:54 +1200 Subject: [TUHS] Borland's C++ BuilderX, Personal Edition In-Reply-To: <42DEAB1D.1020403@icpnet.pl> References: <42CFF030.4080609@peacemax.org> <42DEAB1D.1020403@icpnet.pl> Message-ID: <200507211941.54334.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz> On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 07:50, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote: > Uz.ytkownik Tim Newsham napisa?: > >> "vi". Editing with "cat" is possible but not very useful. I am not going > >> to learn "ed". > > > > Why? > > Simply because. Because I do not like ed. > I want to have useful and user friendly system. To use ed, only because > it is the oldest editor, does not make any sense for me. > I appreciate ed, because of sed, because sed has some similarity to ed > and is extremely useful as a tool. If you have a look at the more modern *BSD, you'll see that vi contains ed and ex. It should be possible to backport that to V7 and likewise to Coherent. > Unix is not about ed, Unix is about unlimited possibilities of adding > new software , new applications or new editors, it makes Unix beautiful > that it can develop and not editor ed.If ed were all Unix has, it would > not survive. > I hope You accept that someone else can have different favourite > editors. I prefer vi, or even more vim, which is perfect editor.Of > course in the case of emulator missing user friendly editor is not a > problem, because I can edit under Coherent and then build under > emulator.It is good to have a choice, and Unix offers it. > > >> Did You try to port "vi" to Unix Version 7 system ? I can > > > > Why!? > > As I said, because I like vi more than ed. Do You suggest , that James > should invest giant amount of time into porting V7 to x86/x64 and than > after use only one editor , namely ed ? As if it was prohibited to > develop another editor ? > > > Andrzej > Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.