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From: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Looking for vi
Summary: Try Stevie
Message-ID: <4408@pegasus.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Jan 90 13:53:42 GMT
References: <5493@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> <5190068@hplsla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman)
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In article <5190068@hplsla.HP.COM> genet@hplsla.HP.COM (Gene Taylor) writes:
>We got a shareware vi that wouldn't do substituion and, therefore, was
>pretty disappointing to use.
	Sounds like Paul Vojta's.  Very small, very fast, and incomplete.
	The lack of substitution was a major shortcoming.

>Then we got the MKS toolkit, by Mortice
>Kern Systems, Inc. and besides getting a full-blown vi,...
>...Available for $150.  The vi editor alone has been worth it.
	An excellent, and well-supported, product.

In addition, you may want to try Stevie, which was posted (SOURCE!!!)
to comp.sources.misc in August.  I am about to post an update (couple
of bugs fixed, a number of features added) this weekend.  The advantages:
   -	Source available.  If you don't like something, you can
	change it.
   -	Portable.  Makefiles (and system-dependent functions) available
	for MSDOS, UNIX, MINIX, OS/2, and TOS for the Atari ST.
   -	The "tags" feature has been enhanced to stack tags calls.
	(I use this as a program "browser" at least as much as
	an editor.)

Disadvantages (incompleteness):
   -	"Undo" doesn't work for "ex" commands, just "vi" commands.
   -	No macros.
   -	Probably others as well, but I'm not aware of them.

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