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Yeah, that's what I was thinking...guess I read the original posting wrong...need more coffee.<BR>
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On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 09:48 -0400, David Tomaschik wrote:
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On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Rich Faulkner <<A HREF="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</A>> wrote:
> So...that means that Emacs pre-dates Vi? I was working on Emacs back when I
> worked at Sequent Computing Systems in 1988/89....wrote a couple of manuals
> on it. Ran UNIX and DYNIX in those days...kinda miss those old days
> sometimes back in Beaverton, Oregon. It was there that I first went online
> as a matter of fact....[Rich starts tripping down memory lane and falls into
> the ditch at the side of the road] I will offer that I am not a fan of
> Vi/Vim and trended to Emacs. Then found my way to Notepad (ugh!) and now
> gedit...(products of driving Windows from 1995-2008).
>
> Back to work....
vi and emacs were both written in 1976[1][2]. "vim", on the other
hand, was written in 1991, which is what this is about. "vim" = "vi
improved".
[1] <A HREF="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vi">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Vi</A>
[2] <A HREF="https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emacs">https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Emacs</A>
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