Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!edsel!sjs1
From: sjs1@edsel.UUCP (S Starr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: vi editor for Mac Plus?
Message-ID: <439@edsel.UUCP>
Date: 3 Oct 88 15:16:33 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Liberty Corner
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Does anyone know how to obtain a Mac Plus version of the popular UNIX 
system "vi" editor?

I know that a vi-like editor is distributed with the more expensive
versions of the Manx C compiler, but I'm not interested in the compiler
and, besides, the Manx version of vi that ran on DOS systems (called
"z") was too stripped down to be attractive.

I have a very complete version of vi for DOS systems called MKS-vi that
is manufactured by Mortice Kern Systems, but unfortunately they claim to
have no plans to port their product to the Mac.

I love the Mac interface for document processing, but for composing 
straight text (perhaps for subsequent processing by a more Mac-ish
application), I just can't beat vi.

Steven Starr
AT&T Bell Laboratories
Liberty Corner, NJ 07060