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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: VI update
Message-ID: <6025@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 87 03:28:40 GMT
References: <6022@cisunx.UUCP> <2674@gryphon.CTS.COM> <165@obi-wan>
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <165@obi-wan>, itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin) writes:
> 
> Concerning the VI editor for the Amiga ...
> 
> Manz has a version of it (called "Z").  It performs very nicely and
> even resizes the text if you re-size the window.  It is not completely
> Unix vi compatible but is close enough for me.


I am aware of the existance of Z.  I have it myself.  The nice thing
about this Uedit-VI! combo is that you don't have to buy the $300
developer's version C compiler if you don't want to.  Uedit is
Shareware--$45, and for my money the best shareware program I've ever
seen.  And yes, I've seen some of the successful shareware programs in
the IBM PC world.  The VI! configuration itself is free.  At this point
in time, Z is a better emulation of vi than my emulator, but the version
I'm about to release has some major improvements over the first version,
which not many people have anyway.  In addition to almost every
available visual command, it now includes macros, extended commands, and
tags.  When I am finished with it, I intend it to be a closer imitation
of vi than Z.  (It already includes features left out of Z, like saving
your last ten deletions.)  Plus, (big plus here)  you get all of the
advantages of Uedit.  Complete customizability.  Powerful macro
language.  Edit up to 35 files at once.  Onscreen help.  And it's as
bullet proof as I've seen them come.  I've been using and programming
Uedit extensively for almost a year, and I've never crashed it.  
Not rarely.  Not infrequently.  Never.  How many programs can you say 
that about?

Eric Kennedy
Developer of VI!, a configuration for Uedit