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Re: Windowing VI

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From: Tony Sanders
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1990 20:01
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In article <1563@awdprime.UUCP> @cs.utexas.edu:ibmchs!auschs!woan.austin.ibm.com!ron writes:
-In article <Feb.19.10.06.08.1990.21675@paul.rutgers.edu>,
-emuleomo@paul.rutgers.edu (Emuleomo) writes:
-|>Does anybody out there know any implementation of VI that has
-|>windows?  If you do, I would very appreciative if you can email to
-|>me how to obtain it.
-
-Sure GNU EMACS in VI (VIP) emulation mode! Available in the base GNU
-EMACS distribution.
-
-						Ron

Sadly neither of the two VI emulation modes really work enough to get
anything done (if you are a real vi aficionado anyway).

If you can, then run X-windows.  If you can't, some versions of vi I
have seen do have mouse support in them.  I've never used it but have
seen the code.  Dunno where it came from.

My philosophy is to do the work in the correct PLACE.  The editor should run
under the windowing system, not the other way around.  Just seems more
natural to me that way.  Fortunatly there isn't a right way or a wrong
way.

I have also seen/used a windowing system that runs on ascii terminals.
It's not the greatest but when my X server broke I used it for a little
while with some success.
-- sanders                                     JUST SAY kNOw TO DRUGS
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Subject: Re: Windowing VI
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