> Now I won't use anything else but vi, because it's fast, flexible and very
> light on termcap (unlike a certain *ahem*PICO*ahem* other editor
> *ahem*PICO*ahem* I could mention). It was well worth the effort. One of my
> persistent threats is to write a stripped down vi clone for the C64.
There's also a rewritten 'vi' called 'vim', for "vi improved". I was hesitant
to use it at first, since it's much bigger/more bloated than good old BSD
vi, but I've found that no editor in existence gets along better with funky
terminals and termcaps on various UNIX systems than vim does.
Some other niceties are a full command history, full undo history, and session
recording. The full undo has saved my ass numerous times compared to the
one-level undo of BSD vi. The command history is great when you want to
edit a previous s-expression without typing the whole (blasted, cryptic,
unreadable) thing over again. :) Session recording lets you use vim as a
sed-like filter to automate making the same changes to numerous files.
Highly recommended -- and it comes with a nice tutorial too for introducing
newbies. And a GTK+ verson for those that prefer windowing.
--
Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253
Received on Tue May 07 2002 - 01:40:08 BST