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Bill Joy
November 8, 1954 -
Nationality: American
Category: Businessman
Subcategory: American Businessman

The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands.

   

I wish we hadn't used all the keys on the keyboard.

   

So Chuck and I looked at that and we hacked on em for a while, and eventually we ripped the stuff out of em and put some of it into what was then called en, which was really ed with some em features.

   

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

   

I think the Macintosh proves that everyone can have a bitmapped display.

   

I remember right after Carter got elected, I was sitting in my apartment in Albany, CA, on a Saturday listening to people call Carter and ask stupid questions while I designed the screen editor.

   

I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community.

   

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

   

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