Vi Pages - Folklore
As with every good program which has been around for quite somne years
there is a good deal of folklore to go with it. Enjoy!
- Twenty Years of Berkeley Unix [001010]
- From AT&T-Owned to Freely Redistributable
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html
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"With the arrival of some ADM-3a terminals offering screen-addressable cursors,
Joy was finally able to write vi, bringing screen-based editing to Berkeley."
- Author: Marshall Kirk McKusick
- A chapter taken from the book
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution .
- Addicted to Vi
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- New text to the song "Addicted to Love" (by Robert Palmer)
"You know you're gonna have to face it; You're addicted to vi!"
- The "true" story of vi
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http://caad.arch.ethz.ch/~neil/Jokes_and_Fun/Vince_Idiot.html
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http://www.sentex.net/~rboys/vince.html [defunct]
- A fun story about Vi.
- [1996-01-01,1999-02-23,2002-09-03]
- Quines [970630,990202]
- Q:
What is a quine?
- A:
"a series of vi keystrokes that when typed in vi
produce output the same as the keystrokes."
- Example:
ii^V^V^V^[BDuplxbbpp^[BDuplxbbpp
- Author: Rodney rodney@worf.netins.net
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I am pretty sure the author is looking for more quines -
especially shorter ones.
- More Quines:
http://www.nyx.net/~gthompso/quine.htm [990202]
- The Cult of Vi
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http://www.splange.freeserve.co.uk/misc/vi.html
- Vi is a cult. (What else is new?)