Re: request for a vi editor

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From: Tarjei Jensen
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 09:04

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Elvis is a better editor than the VMS Posix vi. Elvis is more or less eight-bit
clean where as the other isn't. You can edit the Elvis source if there is some
feature you don't like and recompile (e.g. if you don't like the ISO Latin 1
support). Try this trick with the VMS Posix vi.


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