On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:11:11AM EST, Brian M. Sutin wrote: > > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:29:06 -0500 > > From: David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: burst digests? > > > > You know the world's already gone way crazy when the most popular > > VI clone looks and feels more like emacs than like VI. (Well, yes, > > it's Vi IMproved - of course! That'd expain it. Now, can I please > > have my unimproved BSD-clone (as I found out recently on this selfsame > > list, VI was invented by BSD, not AT&T) VI back ... PLEASE? With my > > latest hosting providor, I found an annoying "no" to be RedHat's answer > > (Bad RedHat! Can't you gimme some Slack, dude?). Fortunately, though, > > my editor of choice doesn't take up too much of my quota.) > > Try "nvi". Comes on RedHat, emulates all, including bugs. Well, the original VI didn't do UTF either, so that won't really give me any more than elvis does. My web hosting providor has nothing against program installation, so I simply installed a private copy of elvis on the thing :-) Thanks for the suggestion, anyway, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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