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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: F77 Compiler, VI needed. Quickly.
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 18:35:56 EDT
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> I am also interested in an VI'ish editor (the more VI the better), 
> I found one mention of Brief, anyone else?
> 
> 			thanks
> 			dave schuh
> 			!uwvax!geowhiz!schuh

There is a vi-like editor known as `z' for the IBM PC.  It's
quite like vi except it doesn't include `ex' mode.  (It does
include a macro facility so you can get along without the ex
`g' command.)  The major debilities I've noticed is that z has
a maximum file size of 32K or so, it doesn't have most of the
`set' options, and it doesn't have the `!' command for filtering
parts of a document.  The `:!command...' is present, however, as
is the `%' command for locating matching parentheses or curly
brackets in programs.  The set `autoindent' option is provided.  

The program is available for $125 (last I heard) from:

		Manx Software Systems
		P.O. Box 55
		Shrewsbury, NJ 07701
		(201) 780-4004

One minor problem with the version I've seen is that it leaves
the cursor changed into an odd shape after the program exits.  
One way to solve this problem is to have a batch file called
`vi.bat' which calls `z' then runs a program called `cursor'
to reset the shape of the cursor afterwards.  

_______________________

Michael McNeil
3Com Corporation
P.O. Box 7390
Mountain View, CA 94039
(415) 960-9367 (work)
(408) 335-2069 (home)
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