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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:31:12PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> You are proposing an interface that will handle easy cases but blow
> up in the user's face in any hard one.  That's poor design, frustrating
> the user exactly when he/she most needs help.

Yeah, but what is the current method, vi?

  OG.