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From: bruss@odin.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: VI clones
Keywords: DME/UEdit macros sought
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Date: 12 Mar 89 00:44:19 GMT
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Reply-To: bruss@odin.ucsd.edu (Brian Russ)
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	As a dedicated Unix vi user, I have been using Manx's Z editor
at home and now wish to upgrade to something better.  The choices
I have seen so far are:

	AVI     (never seen it at all)
	Stevie  (  "    "   "  "   " )
	DME     (looks like it could be to act like vi)
	UEdit   (  "    "   "    "    "  "  "    "  " )
	CygnusEd  (don't know if this is configurable)

	First, if anyone has any recommendations for AVI or Stevie I'd
like to hear them.  Also, I have just gotten DME and UEdit via some
Fish disks -- does anyone have vi macros for either of these?

	Why upgrade?  Well, there are some things I'd like to be able to
do -- the main one being able to edit several files at once (side by
side) -- currently with Z if I look at one file then want to look at 
another I have to call up a NewCLI and then swap between windows --
awkward at best ... an iconify feature (I've seen, and liked, the 
one in DME) would be nice ... mainly I'd be using this editor for
programming in C, if that matters ...

	Thanks,

Brian Russ
CSE Department, UC San Diego
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