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- From: raistlin@wixer.cactus.org (Eli Boaz)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.180414.5593@wixer.cactus.org>
- Organization: Real/Time Communications
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 18:04:14 GMT
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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?
-
- Yes, I'd like this too. If anyone emailed him any info on this could
- you also send it to me? Thanx ...
-
- >:-> 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
- >
- >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.
-
- Why? Because I *hate* the way that WinApps *force* you to use the mouse,
- and that's *slow*. I like Windows (sort of :), but I hate the key-
- combination conventions that MS set. Besides, some of us *like* `vi`
- and would like to have it for Windows.
-
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- Eli Boaz +---------------\ will, never, never surrender to what is right." |
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