[Info-vax] Intel proposal to simplify x86-64

[Rich Alderson]

jgd at cix.co.uk (John Dallman) writes:

> In article <u5s84c$1fo4c$1 at dont-email.me>, news at cct-net.co.uk (Chris
> Townley) wrote:

>> I do know vi(m) and use it a lot on Unix/Linux systems - like EVE 
>> on VMS it is always there. However I choose not to use it for more 
>> than simple changes - I would never use it to write any code

> I found vi baffling on first exposure, and the only commands I know in it
> are for getting out again. If vi or vim is the available screen editor,
> I'll resort to ed or ex. 

I only know enough vi to edit the password file (using the vipw command), or in
the old days before autoconfiguration I could edit the Emacs configuration files
to install a decent editor.

-- 
Rich Alderson					  news at alderson.users.panix.com
      Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
	  omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
									--Galen