Interesting vi bug/feature (Reply to Mark Horton)

[David Herron, NPR Lover]

Gee, he's saying the obvious.  VI needs some work to help novices
learn to use it better.  i.e.  It needs a display of the current mode,
column and line number might be nice, it would definitely be nice
to have it display the command you are typing as you type it.

Then you end up with an editor that (in the words of Jerry Pournelle)
"natters at you".  Just can't please everybody I guess.

At any rate, what would it help to have vi tell you what mode you
were in.  If you were on this blit and had more in one window and
vi in another (a vi that told various status messages all the time).
You want to cut some text from more into vi.  Ok.  You look at vi
and say "Oh damn, it's in command mode, I have to get it into 
input mode".  But you aren't in the right place......  You go into
input mode, paste in the text, but it ends up in the wrong place.
So you unpaste it, go to command mode, move elsewhere, go to input
mode, and paste it again.  No, VI still isn't right enough.  

You want to be able to move the cursor around freely in the text.
Commands to the editor should be accompanied with a click on the mouse.
Text typing should be able to happen at any time.  EMACS is closer to
that than vi.

	David Herron