Re: [LAU] Audio distros

From: Bob van der Poel <bob@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Sat Feb 23 2013 - 20:19:18 EET

On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 February 2013 12:33:28 Len Ovens did opine:
>
>> On Sat, February 23, 2013 12:38 am, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 07:11:44PM -1000, david wrote:
>> >> K3B takes the power approach: You want the power, you got the power.
>> >> Here's hoping you know how to use it! ;-)
>> >
>> > Imagine the state vi/vim would be in if it was decided being user
>> > friendly was more important than features!
>>
>> vi was user friendly when it was developed... when memory was tight and
>> more than one variable would get stored per byte, when a non-volatile
>> drive was 1/4 meg. Oh, and of coarse look at the users it was being
>> friendly to.
>
> Hey, I resemble that remark. :) The editor I use on the color computer has
> had several names over the years, vi being the first one. Then somebody

I really do hope that the editor you used "way back when" was VED :)

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