NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/os/mswindo/misc/4784

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From: [e-mail] (kevin.laux)
Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
Organization: AT&T
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 18:24:13 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
> In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (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.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    I'd like to see VI for Windows too for this reason:  I DON'T want to
use a Word Processor to write CODE.  I'd like to have a programmer's editor -
I'm already quite proficient with VI.  And yes, I'm looking into editors such
as Codewright and Ed (but I'd really rather not learn a whole new editor if
I don't have to).

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