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From: rhuffman@aa.ecn.purdue.edu (Rodney L Huffman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vi?
Message-ID: <180@aa.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 88 01:01:20 GMT
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Reply-To: rhuffman@aa.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Rodney L Huffman)
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>the "uedit" shareware editor (fish disks #60 [v2.0] and #121 [v2.3])
>having a set of vi-emulation macros written for it. Uedit appears
>to be a very powerful and highly customizable editor. The Fish
>disk I just checked, #121, does not have any vi macros (or "config
>files") on it. You get more stuff when you become a registered
>user of this shareware; it may be that would include a set of
>vi macros, too.
>
>If anyone knows more about this, I'd be interested to hear.

As a registered user, you would receive a (small) variety of configurations
for emulating various popular editors/wordprocessors.  vi is included.
HOWEVER, the vi configuration is public domain, written by Eric Kennedy,
and is probably available on a number of BBSs (It's on PeopleLink, for
sure.)  Eric has done a nice job with vi.  It's not a complete emulation of
the UN*X version, though.  It doesn't have :map or :ab.  However, :map-type
macros can be generated with the underlying Learn-mode in Uedit.  I suspect
that boilerplate (:ab) could be done also, but I haven't dug into it enough
to be able to say for sure.  There are things available in the Uedit/vi
combo that aren't available in UN*X vi, like columnar editting (how many
times have you wanted to pull out just *that* column of data?) and
numerical functions (well, *I* never figured out how to get vi to do it
:-).

I might add that Uedit/VI! uses menus and the mouse, as well as all of the
usual keystrokes.  It has a nice help file that can be called upon to
explain key definitions.  As you might have guessed, I like it.

Disclaimer: I'm a registered user of Uedit and I wish everyone would buy
it and give my serial number, but then there's always the lottery...:-):-)

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Rod Huffman               rhuffman@ecn.purdue.edu
Agricultural Engineering, Purdue University