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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: Is there an X-enhanced `vi' ??
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Date: 26 Jun 91 07:35:34 GMT
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gordonc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Gordon Cameron (RA DAI)) writes:

>Does anyone know of a version of `vi' available which executes
>satisfactorily under X11/Xview ?? (i.e. Resizes automatically on window
>resizes etc...)

`vi' wasn't designed for asynchronous input like resize events.  Some
versions of `vi' resize automatically, but I've never seen it work in
all cases; e.g. if you resize while typing `:' commands `vi' usually
gets confused.  Sun even _removed_ from `vi' the autoresizing code that
they received from AT&T, because they couldn't fix its bugs!