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From: feanor AT p236 DOT informatik DOT uni-bremen DOT de (Jani Fikouras)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Editor of choice
Date: 9 Jun 1995 11:38:46 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bremen
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Thomas Eifert (EIFERT AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) wrote:
: > NIGEL  HUGHES (ngh94 AT aber DOT ac DOT uk) wrote:
: > : Dear All,
: > :   Having only had a PC for 2 days, and finding the standard editor a
: > : pile of pants, I was just wondering which editors people like to use with
: > : djgpp. Oh and where do you get it [oooer] ?
: > 
: >   Vi naturally. The best, most versatile, smallest (considering what it can do)
: > editor ever.  You can get it on nearly every major site.
: > 

: vi has the advantage of running on all UNIXes (emacs as well, I know, but
: not as standard) AND exists for DOS and OS/2, so if  You care for
: having a similar environment wherever You are, vi may be a good choice.

: (when I switched to UNIX in my office, it didn't take long and several
: DOS files contained strange things like ":q" - that was the moment I
: went to get elvis (a rather good vi-clone for DOS and OS/2) on my PCs ;-))

  I mainly use a vi clone named vim. Its 100% compatible with vi and
it has some nice new features like multu level undo and stuff like that.
You can get versions of vim (even for dos and os/2) from many major
sites. SimTel(Oak.oakland.edu I think) comes to mind.

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