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Thomas Dickey wrote:
> however, none of the vi-clones were written
 > by anyone associated with GNU.

What is the relevance of this? I don't use a
vi clone on Sun, I use vi.

> point being that rewrites are done with 20-20
 > hindsight and more resources...

The point being that since we now have the hindsight,
we should no longer be advising people to use practices
which limit the size of the data that can be handled.