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From: thomas@ssd.kodak.com (Thomas B. Kinsman (37681))
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: vi on ms-dos
Message-ID: <1991Jun3.223542.9095@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 3 Jun 91 22:35:42 GMT
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In article <..19901@cavebbs.gen.nz> clear@cavebbs.gen.nz (Charlie Lear) writes:
>In article <1991May31.022942.25650@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>>I run on 4 or 5 different operating systems. VI is on all of them
>>(including VMS as of today). I use VI on all of them so I only have to
>>remember one editor.
>
>I use vi on here because I don't have time to learn YABTE (Yet Another
>Bloody Text Editor, in my case emacs). Its taken me two years to become
>confident in using vi, and I'm not about to trash that effort lightly...
>
>On Dos systems, I use Q-Edit. Its brilliant. I'll even get my shareware
>registration cheque sent off one day, I promise.
>
>Hint: it is repugnant, but in your own best interests to learn edlin.
>You never know when you will be confronted with a box containing a nice
>new PC and nothing on it apart from the standard DOS utils...

Edlin:
(IMHO) Knowledge of some edlin is necessary.  This is obvious if you ever
put an error in your config.sys or autoexec.bat file.

VI:
You should know that vi is available for DOS.  In addition to the shareware
versions, MKS Inc. sells a commercial port of it.  Some of the shareware
versions are very small executables.  I used one when working on a floppy-only
laptop that was only 8K!  Compact code!

EMACS:
Versions of EMACS are also available for DOS.  Epsilon is a very nice one.
It can be had from a company in Pittsburgh, I think the company name is
Lugaru Software.

Q:
Q-Edit is very powerful.  A spiral bound manual for it which you can easily
browse is well worth the $10 or $15.  There is a lot more to Q than what
came with the README file I saw.
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