Darren New escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Of course you know email and the web were born on Unix, right? 
> 
> Of course. And composing email on a pre-X UNIX box involved invoking the 
> editor.

So what?  You can still do it today.  I just prefer webmail, though. 
I'm using Thunderbird just for NNTP.

> The kinds of "problems" I was talking about are things like Vi being 
> really bad at (say) speech recognition

I'm pretty sure speech recognition doesn't belong to a text editor, but 
some external lib doing the conversion for it.

> stylus input, multi-touch pad 
> support, stuff like that.

You gotta be kiddin!  Stylus and multi-touch are useful for drawing or 
moving cursors around, not text editing, because it's not precise.

3y} copies 3 (large?) blocks/paragraphs in vim.  Try to do that with a 
mouse, stylus or your finger and marvel at how slow and imprecise it is 
to get it right.  Most people I know who use the mouse for text editing 
always get it wrong:  they either miss the space in the beginning and 
when pasting have to re-indent, or miss the final char or whatever.

It's slow and imprecise because it's analogical.

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