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- From: dtb@otto (David Bath)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: The Death of vi?
- Date: 12 Jan 93 14:43:07 GMT
- Organization: RMIT Computer Centre
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- berger@imag.fr (Gilles BERGER SABBATEL) writes:
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- >>Why does vi(1) live on? The EMACS interface, at the the very least, is
- >>now ubiquitous.
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- Because not many of us have 50 Gigabytes RAM !
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- >Why on earth should we install emacs on our machines, and call it to use
- >a vi emulation, while the real vi is faster and 7 times smaller?
-
- I Agree
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- >What vi folks like with it is that it is a simple editor (neither a
- >newsreader, nor a mailer, nor a debugger, nor a coffee machine...), and
- >that most movements are obtained with a single keystroke (no CTRL, no
- >SHIFT), and it is moded - yes, I like it!
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- I Agree, but you always have the !! capability!
-
-
- >What vi lacks is a more powerfull macro-language, and multi-buffer features.
- >Perhaps multiple windows, and certainly some X features (windows, mouse...).
- >Editors much more simple than emacs provide such features (such as microemacs,
- >or vile).
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- If anyone wants multiple files displayed AT ONCE, try XVI (not for X windows)
- in editors dir of simtel msdos archives. The source is available there
- and compiles on UNIX (has makefiles for cray, bsd, sysv, etc). Not bad,
- tho could use some extending! The PC version is even mouse-aware!
-
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- "Failure to emulate is the best revenge" - Marcus Aurelius
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- David T. Bath Email:dtb@otto.bf.rmit.oz.au Phone:03-3477511
- Global Technology Corporation, 179 Grattan St, CARLTON, VIC, 3153, AUSTRALIA
- "Failure to emulate is the best revenge" - Marcus Aurelius
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