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In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
>>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
>
>Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)

No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs.  There are a lot of things that are much
easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
in a standard Mac 'word processor'.

To answer the question, the only Mac version of vi that I've heard of is
called 'stevie' (originally written for the Atari ST).  Unfortunately, it
doesn't support vi keyboard macros, which makes it pointless, as far as I'm
concerned.  I think that regular expression search and replace was functional,
however, but it's been a while since I've tried it.

If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on text
files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware editor,
Alpha (now in version 5.0).  It is quite powerful, extensible, and flexible.
You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more 
interesting macros than in vi.

Tom

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