Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!ncar!gatech!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!nuug!ulrik!tarjeij From: tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos Message-ID: Date: 30 May 91 07:57:39 GMT References: <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> Sender: news@ulrik.uio.no (Mr News) Distribution: comp Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: reichert@motcid.UUCP's message of 6 May 91 13:48:37 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ulrik In article <4793@cocoa46.UUCP> reichert@motcid.UUCP (Chuck KD9JQ) writes: > Question....what on earth for? There's so many other more desirable > low cost editors for ms-dos out there already. PC-Write, XTREE-PRO, etc. are > among a few. Or are there some hidden features of vi I haven't been able to > find yet. I find vi a pain to use every time I have to move to another line, > delete, copy, etc. It can be done but the other programs I use make it so > much easier. > > Chuck Reichert KD9JQ > If you move around on many different systems it is very useful to have a common editor. VI is an editor that is available on many platforms (Unix, MSDOS, VMS). Besides it got regular expressions, which means powerful search and replace operations. This is something few if any of the MSDOS editors can do. Besides VI supports most of what I want an editor to do. The few things that I would want in addition is not something I would want to give up VI for (or the functionality of VI). In other words; VI is old, but is still a useful tool. VI enables me to be up to speed while others are trying to remember which key sequence does what in emacs. After all didn't Berkeley bring out ined after VI? Why did VI become standard while ined seems to have died? Greetings from Norway, -- // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway! // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 87 21138 // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian National Library.