[ih] cut and paste

[John Levine]

It appears that Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org> said:
>AFAIK, vi was independent of TECO.  TECO started on the DEC PDP-1 in the 
>early 60s.  Unix and vi came along more than a decade later IIRC.  But 
>it's certainly likely that the implementors of vi had used TECO before 
>or were at least aware of it. ...

I have heard that Bill Joy had already seen Emacs, but wrote vi anyway.

Some of its odd command layout is to minimize finger movement so you can
type really really fast.

R's,
John using Epsilon, an Emacs clone where the extension langugage is roughly C