The fundamental problem with vi is that it doesn't have a mouse and therefore you've got all these commands. Bill Joy commandfundamentalhave Change image and share on social
I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated. Bill Joy complaincomplicateeditor Change image and share on social
I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up. Bill Joy codedisplaygive Change image and share on social
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too. Bill Joy levelmultipleundo Change image and share on social
Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. Bill Joy lotsophisticatesystem Change image and share on social
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. Bill Joy callchuckeventually Change image and share on social
Interleaf is very nice. I expect there to be a lot of competition for programs like that. Bill Joy competitionexpectinterleaf Change image and share on social
I think the hard thing about all these tools is that it takes a fair amount of effort to become proficient. Bill Joy amounteffortfair Change image and share on social
I think it killed the performance on a lot of the systems in the Labs for years because everyone had their own copy of it, but it wasn't being shared, and so they wasted huge amounts of memory back when memory was expensive. Bill Joy amountbackcopy share on social
I think editors have to come out of a certain kind of community. Bill Joy communityeditorkind Change image and share on social
