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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

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 paul fox, address@hidden (arlington, ma, where it's 38.8 degrees)



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