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Article #1663Re: Best Vi-Clone?
From: L. J. Dickey
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:38
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:38
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In article <7547@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> warwick@cs.uq.oz.au writes:
>andi@gmd.de (Andreas Rohrschneider) writes:
>
>>I'm looking for a really useable VI-Clone.
>>I've already tested leevee, ELVIS and such, but none of these could satisfy me
>
>Eh? I use Elvis 1.4, and it is an excellent clone of VI - it even has
>more features (such as a ":prev" to complement ":n"), and lets you map
>ALT-key combinations!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
>If you have trouble, it may be a config. thing. One thing I noticed
>is that VI assumes you are in VT52 wrap mode (which was true on the old
>TOSes, but was changed for some reason). A simple fix is to change to
>wrap mode at start-up.
Don't forget STevie.
All of these programs are just a tad less than vi in one way or
another. One uses disk support rather than free Ram space,
even though the Ram space may be abundant. Some safety in
that, I suppose.
--
Leroy J. Dickey, Faculty of Mathematics, U of Waterloo, Canada N2L 3G1
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!ljdickey From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L. J. Dickey) Subject: Re: Best Vi-Clone? Message-ID: <1992Apr16.033858.14459@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo References: <andi.703258869@gmd.de> <7547@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 03:38:58 GMT Lines: 28