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		gonzo on Jan 5, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bill Joy's greatest gift to man – the vi editor I used to work for wnj. I asked him about vi. His retort, "I wrote that when I didn't know how to program." He uses Textedit (on a Mac) these days. (Emacs bindings, if you didn't know.) He hasn't used vi in years.

cmkrnl on Jan 5, 2012 [–]

Nice - always interested in hearing what the old geniuses are up to now.

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