Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!dalcs!dalcsug!dalegass
From: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need DOS vi
Message-ID: <441@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 14:21:49 GMT
Reply-To: dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass)
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S., Canada
Lines: 16
Keywords: Aztec Z MKS Toolkit vi
Summary: Too bad Q can't be modified

It's too bad there isn't a public domain or shareware version of vi available.
The Q editor is quite configurable; too bad it's not configurable enough to
forge into a VI clone.  I wonder if Q's author would consider doing this;
the basic editor functions would be the same, just the keystrokes and
modes would be different.

Granted, all the fancy : commands would be a lot of work, but personally,
I see the major advantage of VI as being the ability to work very quickly
without ever having to move your hands off the home position...  The only
: command I really use is search and replace.

Anyhow, if this could be done with the Q editor, I'm sure many people would
be quite happy; the Q editor is the fastest I've seen, and handles as big
a file as your machine can swallow..

-dalegass@dalcsug.uucp