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fin@norge.unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) writes:

>I have seen lots of articles complaining about how big Emacs is and
>how pervasive and small and simple vi is.  I would like the best of
>both worlds.  Does anybody have a set of vi macros that emulates the
>Emacs command set?

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Why not try jove?  It is a reasonable subset of emacs, with some extensibility
through keyboard- and named- macros.  Is is easier for a c programmer to add
c code than to learn lisp.  OS commands can be used as pipes for regions of
text in the edit buffer: I routinely define a region of a a space or two and
pipe it through date to get a date in a code comment or piece of mail
(Wed Jun 26 23:57:04 EDT 1991).  I also used pr to create a double-columned
help file by filtering regions.  Jove can parse C or grep -n errors in a
window.  Best of all, all of the code, docs and all, fits on one DOS HD floppy, maybe without even being 
compressed.  The ls for vi and jove on a SUN 3, SunOS4.1 follows:

solo> l /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x  7 root       155648 Feb  8  1990 /usr/ucb/vi
solo> l /usr/local/bin/jove
-rwxr-xr-x  1 stew       180224 Feb 12 13:28 /usr/local/bin/jove
solo>

It is not perfect and has some bugs, but for many people for whom the emacs
command set is more important than the feeping creaturism of GNU emacs, it is
a much more integrated product than uemacs.  

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