Roger Merchberger wrote:
>
> At 04:25 PM 10/28/98 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >Get the GNU DOS port of vi - has the benefit of being a standard, very
> >powerful, reliable and takes up 120KB or so (OK, that's a lot more than
> >ideal for an editor, but at least you don't need all the extra garbage
> >that you have to have with standard MS-DOS 'edit') - of course, if
> >you've never used vi before, you're gonna hate it :)
>
> [snip]
>
> Well, not if you're accustomed to TS-EDIT on the Tandy Color Computers! vi
> is a superset (I believe -- been a long time since I used TS-EDIT) but the
> CoCo clone is a fairly complete implementation of it.
>
> One thing about vi / TS-EDIT: 'tis a pain in the rear to use, until you get
> accustomed to the commands. If you do become highly accustomed to editor,
> you can go *very fast* with it.
>
> Boy, I miss those good old days... ;-)
After over 15 years, the vi command set has worn rather deep grooves
in my brain -- to the horror of the EMACS preachers I deal with. And
yes, TSEDIT is a fine subset and I still use it as well.
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Received on Wed Oct 28 1998 - 12:38:48 GMT