Well, limbo is not a good place to be.
From Bill Joy
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.
So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.
I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.
I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.
I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor.
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.
The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
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