On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:53:36 -0800 (PST), Vintage Computer Festival
<vcf_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Tom Jennings wrote:
>
> > There's a vi (or vim) for windows, and I'm fairly certain there's one
> > for DOS. Not too bad. vi is a bit ugly, but it's small, very widely used
> > (available on every unix/linux machine, ever) and while obtuse, easy
> > enough to learn the basics.
>
> I've got a decent VI editor for DOS that I always installed with a bunch
> of other utilities (but that got used the most). If anyone wants it I'll
> send it. It's nice because it takes advantage of the PC cursor keys and
> works rather intuitively.
I find my copy of vi from an old computer, probably a 486. After using
linux for several years I became an stranger to DOS style editors. I
started from emacs coming with the FreeDOS distribution, only to found
that it could not handle big files. So I started to learn vi. Now I
found that I started to use vi with my linux computer, besides emacs.
My experience with editors: edlin -> mince (emacs style commands) ->
edit (M$) -> Turbo C -> QE; Emacs on linux -> emacs on DOS -> vi on
DOS -> vi and emacs on linux
vax, 9000
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