[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [vile] Great "vi" editor, thanks
From: |
Paul Fox |
Subject: |
Re: [vile] Great "vi" editor, thanks |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:20:57 -0400 |
maurice -- thank you very much for the kind words. at this point, tom
has probably done a lot more work than the rest of us put together, so
he deserves most of the credit!
paul
mnicole wrote:
> Hello Paul Fox (and Kevin Buettner, Tom Dickey).
>
> A short message, simply to give you many thanks for maybe the best
> "vi". And I know "vi". For me unsurpassed, despite all talks. Small
> is beautiful.
>
> Strangely, as an old Unix aficionado, and especially a "vi"
> aficionado, I did not have a look at it in the past. You can miss
> some tools, despite many years of installations, compilations...
>
> I saw/used elvis, then vim, I made some visits to gnu emacs (sometimes
> I use it)... Yes, vim, great, but becoming a little heavy, I think
> since some time...
>
> Recently, I took time to recompile the original "vi". "Standard"
> (provided) on "Arch-Linux". More and more I want/need simplicity.
>
> And three days ago, I had a look at your "vile". I am not new, to
> evaluate, sometimes first with the "feeling", a good tool. A little
> more time, and really, clean, simple, powerful !
>
> Yes, again, thanks a lot. The only goal of this email.
> My best regards.
>
> (of course thie email wrote with "vi"... no, now with "vile" :-)
>
> --
> Maurice Nicole - MNA - system and software engineering / photography
> email address@hidden
> voice +41 79 2024852 (gmt pm)
> fingerprint FE33 D909 4B9D EAC8 CE90 C28B 1739 1FF2 AC33 1C45
=---------------------
paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 38.8 degrees)
- Re: [vile] Great "vi" editor, thanks,
Paul Fox <=