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- From: steimann@quando.quantum.de (Ulrich Steimann)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.171415.684@quando.quantum.de>
- Organization: Quantum Software GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:14:15 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu
- (Marc Meltzer) 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.
- >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.
-
- Pardon me if this sounds rude, but do _You_ know any editor better
- than vi (oh, well, perhaps emacs...)? Of course it depends on the
- purpose, but vi has so many good features for programming and editing
- quick things. If you are used to it, it is very easy to work whith
- it. So why no Windows-version? Cutting and pasting with the mouse
- and resizing the screen are IMHO easy to put in vi.
-
- And why _I_ like vi especially: I know every char it puts into a
- file. Vi says "987 chars" and the file has 987 chars. It even
- allows spaces at the end of a line!
-
- Bye,
- UST
- --
- Ulrich Steimann, Quantum GmbH, | Descartes enters a pub.
- D-4600 Dortmund | "Evening, Descartes. Same as usual?"
- email: steimann@quantum.de | Descartes says: "No, I think not."
- FAX: +49-0231-75441-115, Tel -151 | -- and disappears.
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