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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!swidir.switch.ch!scsing.switch.ch!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!pendragon.jsc.nasa.gov!ames!newsfeed.gsfc.nasa.gov!news!kstailey From: kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: :X in vi vs :x Date: 16 Aug 1995 21:29:35 GMT Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center -- Greenbelt, Maryland USA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <KSTAILEY.95Aug16172935@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> References: <3vpfja$dr3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> <3vvgvp$nkp@nyheter.chalmers.se> <401hfo$pfv@vodka.intele.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov In-reply-to: Barnacle Wes's message of 6 Aug 1995 04:46:47 GMT In article <401hfo$pfv@vodka.intele.net> Barnacle Wes <wes@intele.net> writes: In article <3vpfja$dr3@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, Elmer Fudd <gil@cse.ucsc.edu> wrote: % who the f... came up with the arrangement in vi that the encryption % command :X would be just a capital letter away from the exit command :x ??? I believe that would be Bill Joy. (Probably) Who said that if he know how popular vi was going to become, he would not have written it. 8-) ~Ken