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From: pdcst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick Champion)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Is there a fast vi for DOS
Message-ID: <50669@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 04:39:17 GMT
Reply-To: pdcst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Patrick Champion)
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Organization: University of Pittsburgh, Epidemiology Data Center
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	I have just tried stevie and like most of it except that I find
it extremely slooooow.  Is there a vi program that does direct screen 
writes?  I also found jstevie from japan.  I like the abbrevialtion ability
and the move and copy, and although it is faster than normal stevie, it 
still seems to use bios or nansi. 
	Also, I may just be dense, but can page up and down keys, as well as
up and down arrow commands map to the ^F ^B and hjkl keys?
	
	I like vi for its smart pattern matching and replacing, I also like to
be able to specify groups of lines to move by line number.  Perhaps I actually
need a different editor??  I also like to see column positions if possible
for when I work with data and have to know the column number for SAS programs.

Thanks for any help
Patrick Champion