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- From: pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu (Tom Pollard)
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- Subject: Re: good vi editor for the mac
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.192444.24921@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 19:24:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cucbs.1992Sep4.192444.24921
- References: <1992Sep1.163234.20799@Synopsys.Com> <lawton.715610572@armand>
- Organization: Center for Biomolecular Simulation
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- In article <lawton.715610572@armand> lawton@armand.RADC.AF.MIL (James Lawton) writes:
- >>I want a good vi . . . for the mac.
- >
- >Isn't this a contradiction in terms? ;-)
-
- No it isn't, you hopeless dweebs. There are a lot of things that are much
- easier to do in a good mainframe editor, like vi and especially emacs, than
- in a standard Mac 'word processor'.
-
- To answer the question, the only Mac version of vi that I've heard of is
- called 'stevie' (originally written for the Atari ST). Unfortunately, it
- doesn't support vi keyboard macros, which makes it pointless, as far as I'm
- concerned. I think that regular expression search and replace was functional,
- however, but it's been a while since I've tried it.
-
- If you're just looking for a good editor that you can use directly on text
- files, I would strongly suggest you look at the excellent shareware editor,
- Alpha (now in version 5.0). It is quite powerful, extensible, and flexible.
- You can redefine the key bindings, for instance, and write much more
- interesting macros than in vi.
-
- Tom
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- Tom Pollard Department of Chemistry
- pollard@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu Columbia University
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