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- From: mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 22:48:22 GMT
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- 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!).
- :->
- :-> Please e-mail your response to gupta@ansoft.com
- :->
- :-> Thanks in advance,
- :-> Suvajit
-
- Pardon me if this sounds rude, but why would you want to use VI in
- Windows? It makes no sense to me to use only the keyboard in a graphical
- user interface. NotePad is a good editor, and if you don't think so, I'm
- sure Write, or your other word processors can do a good job.
-
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