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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
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Subject: Re: A small, fast editor required...
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Date: 19 May 89 03:13:41 GMT
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>   Can anyone recommend a small, fast MS-DOS text editor?  Something
>   like the editor from Turbo Pascal 3, if only it didn't have the associated
>   paraphenalia of the Pascal compiler?

A "clone" of vi (not stevie) was posted several months ago. It is a
*.com executable and edits an in-memory file. While not a perfect clone
(get the MKS Toolkit if you want real vi), it is certainly fast and
usable, and better than edlin. Then again, are there any editors worse
than edlin? :)