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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: minimum vi command set, was: Wanted: Easy, Full-screen Editor
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Date: 9 Oct 90 01:31:03 GMT
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Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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>>My employer needs a simple, full screen editor that will run on a VAX 8250
>>running BSD 4.3-tahoe.  
>>I have both vi and emacs, but nether one of these are acceptable for this
>>application.  

>Reconsider vi for this.  Just don't try to teach them everything
>all at once.  

My thoughts exactly.
What do you REALLY need to use vi?

	cursor keys
	<ESC>
	i		(forget a,I,A)
	x
	u		(optional)
	J		(maybe)
	ZZ
Sure they're LOTS of things that will go slowly with only the
above, but is there any text you cannot enter or edit?
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