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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: vi?
Message-ID: <8870@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Apr 88 00:46:32 GMT
References: <23029@bbn.COM| <8150@oberon.USC.EDU> <4618@cup.portal.com> <180@aa.ecn.purdue.edu>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <180@aa.ecn.purdue.edu> rhuffman@aa.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (Rodney L Huffman) writes:
>>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

>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,

Well, you're close... It is copyrighted, but is freely redistributable.

>and is probably available on a number of BBSs (It's on PeopleLink, for
>sure.)  

Or directly from Rick Stiles if you register, or directly from me--see
my previous post.

>Eric has done a nice job with vi.  

Thank you.

>It's not a complete emulation of
>the UN*X version, though.  It doesn't have :map or :ab.  

I have boilerplate (:ab) abbreviations working now, just need to
integrate them into the vi environment.  If you send me a disk now, you
will get the :ab stuff.

>However, :map-type
>macros can be generated with the underlying Learn-mode in Uedit. 

Yeah, those are tough.  I'm working on them, but I suspect any solution
will require compiling Uedit commands, which means you would have to be
a registered Uedit user to use that feature.  Look for them in the next
major version, hopefully out with Uedit 2.4 at the end of the summer.

>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...:-):-)

Ditto on the disclaimer.

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

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Eric Kennedy          Materials Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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 But I'd _MUCH_ rather be back at Purdue -----------/