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- From: tony2@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (gozdz,antoni s)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 14:00:54 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.140054.20639@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu 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!).
- >:->
- >:-> 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.
- >
- >---------------------------------------------------------------------
- > mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu is
- >
- > Marc Meltzer
- > President of The Meltz Inc
- > "Our job is to play games. Our hobby is to consult."
-
- Since VI was the first text editor I learned to use, my
- view may not be objective. However, no editor equals VI
- as far as the ease of searches, smart replacement of complex
- strings, etc. While I'm trying to switch to W4W for
- general text processing, I miss those quick /, ?, '',
- g/^...[A-D]/s//xx/gp, and g/^$/p. Could you do it
- quicker in a graphical environment, if at all?
- That's why I still keep VI as a DOS icon in Windows.
-
- Tony
-