~4Dgifts/toolbox/src/apps/gvi README ANNOUNCING GVI 1.0 -- A "Graphical" vi I am a vi/xwsh pack rat. Yes, I use vi for software development and I inevitably end up with 5-10 xwsh's running vi covering my screen. I considered emacs but I am set in my vi ways. To deal with this flock of editing windows (and to play with ViewKit), I wrote gvi. gvi is a modest graphical front end to the vi editor. By placing each vi editing window on top of each other and using the ViewKit TabPanel, one can easily select among editing sessions. Each vi editing window has a tab (like a rolodex tab) associated with it. To select a particular vi window, select the tab. In addition, files can be opened or closed using menu items AND the last 15 recently opened files can be quickly selected for editing. gvi was originally written with me as the sole consumer. However, seeing that others might find this program useful I have made the software available. I consider the feature set to be very basic. As with any editing program there is a whole swarm of creeping features that could be added. I will happily add your suggestions to the gvi feature list (and yes they will get attention). Subdirs are: inst: inst-able images of the gvi software src: src plus man page After the software is installed you can man gvi to get detailed information (or look at src/gvi.man). Send problems, comments, questions, praise, hugs, kisses to baron@sgi.com. And yes, after basic functionality was established, I used gvi as my development editor for gvi. Hope you find gvi useful. If you do, please send happy email. If you think gvi "sucks dead bunnies through a bent straw", send me happy email. In fact, send me happy email even if you don't know what an editor is. One can NEVER get enough happy email. Enjoy, Baron Roberts MTS, VMD, Silicon Graphics
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