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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
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Subject: Re: VI on amiga (was Re: Emacs for the Amiga 1000 ? (MicroEmacs?))
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Date: 19 Jan 91 00:50:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jan18.053055.17420@cs.dal.ca> dewolfe@ug.cs.dal.ca (Colin DeWolfe) writes:
>Just out of curiosity, with all this talk going on amount MEmacs, Gnu Emacs,
>ed, and CED, I'm interested in finding out how many people out there are using
>STEVIE (vi clone) on the Amiga. 

I hate to admit it, but....  When I program, I use the "z" editor.
This is a clone of vi that comes with Manx's Aztec C.  Normal emacs
doesn't quite do it for me.  I'm so good at vi, it is the fastest for
me.  It took me about a year to learn it really well (on Unix).  I've
discovered that for some things, it is very quick, mostly because you
don't have to fumble for the control or alt or amiga keys.  Having two
modes is very counterintuitive, and I remember when I was learning
that I had a hard time with vi.  Now, though, I'm used to it.

If someone managed a complete, solid port of Gnu Emacs, I would
probably use that, if only for the indentation features.  It's nice
having all the different modes that you can load in.  Since I haven't
found this in the Amiga's MicroEmacs, I haven't used it much since I
got z.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.