Quotes About Vi

Nobody, at least on the Unix side, had any idea they wanted it yet. Everyone uses them now but we had to spend a lot of time explaining to people why this was better than vi and GCC.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

I was surprised about vi going in, though, I didn't know it was in System V.

Light tanks top out around Tier V. That means that there are no Tier VI, VII, VIII, etc. light tanks.

I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.

The camera resumes its melancholy tour.

That wasn't a moose was it? Janelle said when Stevie was out of earshot. that's a branch, right? it moved in the wind? It's a branch. Nate replied. Like, that's obviously a branch, Vi said. Should we tell her? She seems really invested in this. Definitely not, Nate said as Stevie vanished in the direction of the classroom buildings, earbuds already in her ears. Let her have her moose.

I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.

You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast.

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

That lack of programmability is probably what ultimately will doom vi. It can't extend its domain.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

IV. Congratulatory V. The Jackal VI. Hundreds of People VII. Monseigneur in Town VIII. Monseigneur in the Country

The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be "like real life" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region.

It is formatted, and I'm tired of using vi. I get really bored.

VI was predecessor to hundreds of word processing systems. By now, Unix folks see it as a bit stodgy—it hasn't the versatility of Gnu-Emacs, nor the friendliness of more modern editors. Despite that, VI shows up on every Unix system.

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

staying, that he mustn't be at all demonstrative towards Vi, that it would seem, in front of the poor