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- From: jcwasik@srv.PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
- Subject: Re: Vi for MS-Windows
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.230310.9493@PacBell.COM>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell
- References: <BxvMCB.LMM@ansoft.com> <1992Nov19.224822.11623@wam.umd.edu> <1992Nov20.180414.5593@wixer.cactus.org>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:03:10 GMT
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- >In an article mmeltzer@wam.umd.edu writes:
- >>In an article gupta@ansoft.com (Suvajit Gupta) writes:
- >>:-> Is there a good public domain UNIX-style vi editor that runs under
- >>:-> Microsoft Windows?
- >>
- >>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.
-
- Here we go again. A religious topic. I'd love to get vi for Windows --
- I'd even pay for it. Once you learn the keystrokes (too much work for
- many, I know) it is a very fast fast editor.
-
- Surely you jest when you say Notepad is a good editor. That's not even
- worth discussing. And Write isn't even a text editor, it is a word
- processor. That won't work for us text types.
-
- >ttyl, | "My friends, no matter how rough the road maybe, we can and we |
- >Eli Boaz +---------------\ will, never, never surrender to what is right." |
- >raistlin@wixer.cactus.org \ -- Vice Pres Dan Quayle to Christian Coalition |
- >wixer!raistlin@cs.utexas.edu\-----------------------------------------------+
-
- I do believe the Bedroom Police lost the election. Time to move on...
-
- --
- Joe Wasik, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA (510)823-2422, jcwasik@pacbell.com
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