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- From: weekslb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Weeks)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <By09xC.8Hy@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov19.232533.2725@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:22:22 GMT
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- mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) once wrote:
- > mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
- >> 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!).
- >>
- >> 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.
- >
- > Several reasons come to my mind:
-
- Also, some of us hate having to reach all over the stupid PC keyboard
- to press an Insert key there, a Delete key here, an arrow key there.
- I've always hated single mode editors, and I really hate arrow keys.
- You can't beat vi for nice quick editing of simple documents and
- program source code.
-
- Larry
- --
- Larry Weeks | "Pascal is Police State Programming."
- dev@ecn.purdue.edu | "Pascal -- The worst features of C and Basic09."
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- "If Basic is for backward children, and Pascal for naughty schoolboys,
- then C is the language for consenting adults." -- Brian Kernighan
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