Subject: Re: Software versions, upgrades, inevitable bloat...
To: matthew green <blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn), mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@eden.rutgers.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 04/02/1996 14:06:09
> According to matthew green:
> >sigh.  no.  openmode and the lisp option are two of the larger
> >(as in, to actually impliment) portions left to do for nvi.  i'm
> >sure bostic would love for someone to do it for him.  :)
> 
> Hmmm lisp option - now what other editor uses that I wonder ;-)
> Sounds like nvi is becoming an emacs wannabe =:-o

No, *the* vi, that is, the one originally written by Bill Joy, not a
clone, has lisp mode.  Thus, nvi is a vi wannabe.

> Flames to my newly asbestos lined mailbox greatfully received :-)

No flame is ignited.

ken