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- From: gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <By6Dw7.Cv6@ansoft.com>
- Organization: Ansoft Corp. Pittsburgh
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> <49835@shamash.cdc.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:33:42 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <49835@shamash.cdc.com> udk@awd.cdc.com writes:
- In article <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com>, gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta) writes:
- |> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
- |> Microsoft Windows? Ideally, it should allow resizing of the window
- |> it runs in. I currently have a PC vi that runs under DOS, but it
- |> is limited to run in DOS windows (24 lines only!).
-
-
- Someone wanted to know why I want to use a keyboard-based editor such as
- 'vi' within a windowing environment. The following reasons immediately
- come to mind:
-
- o Vi is a very powerful editor that grows on you as your experience with
- it increases (much like C/C++). After having used it for seven years,
- I have little to complain about (except that it doesn't support split
- screens like emacs, which allegedly had been developed but lost in
- a disk crash).
-
- o The uniformity with which it handles UNIX-style regular expressions
- is impressive - experienced users will vouch for their flexibility in
- executing complicated editing operations.
-
- o Vi works perfectly well under X-Windows (including Cut/Paste across
- vi windows), so I don't see what makes it difficult to use under
- MS-Windows. I think it is counter-productive to keep switching
- basic tools such as editors when you work on different platforms
- (as if all the other differences are not bothersome enough!).
-
-
- From the numerous messages I've received so far, a lot of poeple are
- eager to get their hands on (and even pay) for a good vi editor under
- MS-Windows. So I'm still on the look out...
-
-
- -Suvajit
-