Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!ukma!sean
From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga vi wanted
Message-ID: <10100@g.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Jul 88 17:33:36 GMT
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Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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The "z" editor, written by Jim Goodnow (hi Jim) and included with Manx C is
pretty good. It acts extremely close to "vi", which I've used almost
exclusively now for about 5 years. It does NOT do "ex" commands, except for
a very tiny subset, and it doesn't do decent regular expression processing.
This means that commands like ":g/^/ s//>/" aint gonna work.  I also miss
"!Gfmt-77", but you can't have everything I guess.

I'm surprised there isn't more out there, because there are several vi
clones for MessyDos machines, some of them almost exactly like vi, and some
a bit better.

Sean
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