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From: strike@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US (Tim Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: vi-like editor for PC
Message-ID: <1990Jul9.211955.5625@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Date: 9 Jul 90 21:19:55 GMT
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t-rayc@microsoft.UUCP (Raymond CHEN) writes:

>Summary:  Although more flexible, Xedit is clumsier to use.  Xedit's
>column operations are useful when editing fixed-field data files.
>(Very handy when editing punch cards.  I'm not joking.)

I know nothing about IBM terminals.  I do know about a shareware vi editor
for the DOS computers called "VI19".  According to our local Xenix addicts,
it is the closest thing you can get to the vi editor without having to deal
with the *nix operating system.  It's only (and possibly fatal) flaw is
that the editor does not have word wrap, or the ability to use the
equivalent of the .exrc file.  That omission aside, it does well enough in
the emulation that we recommend it to our users for vi training at home.


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