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>>> On 18 Jan 93 10:11:56 GMT, mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) said:
Dobie> Nntp-Posting-Host: lisa

Dobie> In <1993Jan15.202831.21209@walter.bellcore.com>
Dobie> pietro@nova.bellcore.com (Pietro Manzoni) writes:

pietro> I've been using vi for a long time, and now, I got elvis.
pietro> It seems very similar to vi, so I wanted to know which are the main
pietro> differences betwen the two editors.

Dobie> The (functional) differences are few and getting fewer, now that elvis
Dobie> 1.7 has a tagstack. The only major difference left (for me) is that
Dobie> elvis handles long lines by scrolling sideways whereas vi wraps the line
Dobie> and shows it all on the screen.

Actually *the* major difference is that elvis only allows '/' as
delimiter in regular expressions, e.g. the ':s' command. This can be a
pain; I usually specify '|' as my delimiter as in 's|a|b|'.

There is another vi clone, recently posted to one of the sources groups
(I cannot remember which one). VIM is a near perfect vi clone too, and
allows the specification of arbitrary delimiters like VI itself.
--
Piercarlo Grandi <pcg@aber.ac.uk> c/o Dept of CS
University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK