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vitool

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From: Jim - Hickstein
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 1990 01:07
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I use textedit constantly, but miss features (to say the least) of vi.
When I use vi, I miss features of textedit, primarily scroll bars and
just mouse-ability in general.

Has anyone blended these two, yet? I suppose it would be called vitool.
I imagine a front-end for vi that would allow mouse positioning of the
caret (and a left-button click), telling vi the appropriate things to get
it to move its cursor there; knowing whether vi is in insert mode, and 
putting it there if I do a Paste, for instance.  It would work just like
vi, except that the mouse and selection service would work.
Perhaps a special TERMCAP would make it easier for the tool to understand
what vi is up to.

How about it, people?  I just got a Sun on my desk a month ago, and I
thought of this; hasn't *somebody* out there already done it in the
years and years prior to my entry upon the scene?

-Jim Hickstein, Teradyne/Attain, San Jose, CA (408) 434-0822
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