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From: jcw@jwren.UUCP (John C. Wren)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MKSs VI Clone
Message-ID: <247@jwren.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 89 03:20:53 GMT
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Reply-To: jcw@jwren.UUCP (John C. Wren)
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The MKS VI Clone is much faster than the old CSS version.  They are both
very similair, except the the MKS VI is faster, and edits a somewhat larger
file, and supports 8 bits.  However, there are several problems with both.
The major one with CSS is they went out of business.  What really annoyed
me was they did that before I got the last release (that was supposedly
on order).

Anyways, the MKS VI has problems with it's undo and setting markers during
an undo.  Also, if you set a marker at the beginning of the line, back
up several lines and yank into a buffer, you get the complete line you
set the marker at.  This is not the way the "normal" implentation of VI
works.  There is also a flaw in the global replace (more likely in the
argument processor for colon commands).  If you type ":%s/foobar/^v^m/g"
(which should replace every occurrence of foobar with a carriage return),
you get a musical note for the ^v^m sequence.  This might work properly
if noeightbits is set, but i prefer to run with that enabled so I can edit
files with PC graphics characters in them.

Other than that, I consider the MKS VI extremely nice, along with the
rest of the utilites.  I would recommend them to anyone looking to make
their DOS more Unix-y.
						- John C. Wren
						  jcw@jwren