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- From: Mike@Redrobe.demon.co.uk (Mike)
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- Subject: Re: workbench-editor?
- Date: 08 Mar 96 15:13:05 +0000
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- Hi, Niels M÷ller , on 03-Mar-96 00:52:47 you scribbled....
- >eraugust@igate1.hac.com (Eric R. Augustine) writes:
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- >> > > I've heard rumours about a port of emacs-19, but I haven't tried it.
- >> > emacs 19.25 is on Aminet ....
- >> >
- >> > > I recommend it highly.
- >>
- >> Yah - if you have the disk space and RAM for it... Use something that
- >> emulates vi if you want a Unix editor.
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- >I don't think you can compare vi to emacs like that; emacs is not
- >merely an editor. I haven't bothered to learn vi, but as far as I have
- >understood, it doesn't have the things I like in emacs. I'm thinking
- >of things like specialized editing modes for all programming languages
- >I know of, recognition of error mesage when compiling, embedded lisp,
- >manual info and mail readers, etc.
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- no, vi is a text editor, no more no less. But it does its job well ;)
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- btw which are the best Vi clones for the amiga? Vim , xvi,..?
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- Mike
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