Re: [vile] Great "vi" editor, thanks

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 4 Nov 2011, Paul Fox wrote:

> 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!

thanks - I was just doing some work on vile (though I'll be away for a few 
days.

This week I was debugging some of the linebreak mode that I promised a 
while back (still not ready, but okay for a demo).  That bug report on 
savannah had reminded me that I'd originally put it off til the 
wide-character handling in display.c looked stable...

> 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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