| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
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Hello all,
is there anybody out there, who can tell me where to get a
VI-like Editor for the ATARI ST series ?
VI is the standard UNIX/ULTRIX editor.
Ralf
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| 1166.1 | Dweezl::Atari$Dsk:*vi*.* | SKIVT::HEARN | Time will tell... | Thu Aug 29 1991 09:38 | 13 |
Ralf,
Look in
Dweezl::Atari$Dsk:*vi*.* (Dweezl = 17.252)
elvis.zoo - vi clone
vi .arc - another one
I've not tried these myself, but they are listed as vi type
editors...
Rich
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| 1166.2 | some people have funny hobbies. | UKCSSE::KEANE | Fri Aug 30 1991 11:38 | 7 | |
thats the first time I have ever heard of anyone actually wanting to
run VI!
Who is a masochist then? 8>))
Pat K.
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| 1166.3 | I tried it - not too bad... :^) | SKIVT::HEARN | Time will tell... | Tue Sep 03 1991 08:28 | 7 |
Actually Pat, I did try out 'vi' and it looks quite good (as far as
'vi' goes :^) It "works" quite nicely in the Gulam environment
I've got set up (kind's one more thing to "fool" your friends into
thinking you run a 'Unix' box :^) :^) :^)
Rich
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| 1166.4 | Why don't you try minix then? | UTRTSC::KNOPPERS | Oswald Knoppers | Tue Sep 03 1991 11:57 | 1 |
| 1166.5 | Not yet... | SKIVT::HEARN | Time will tell... | Wed Sep 04 1991 08:56 | 4 |
I've thought about it, but I'm not into laying out the $$$ required
at this point.
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| 1166.6 | Okay then... | EICMFG::LANGE | Thu Sep 05 1991 06:42 | 38 | |
Hello all again,
i had asked for a VI-like Editor for the ST in .0 and got some replies.
Thank you for the tip where to find ELVIS, Rich!
The point is, there are some VI-like Clones for the Atari ST, some
fairly good, but everyone has some specialities:
LV : This Editor can only handle files with a size no greater than
32Kb. I think he has no named buffers (this cutting and pasting
with "ayy for example) and is not able to work on more than one
file.
Stevie: Really nice, but no named buffers, and without named buffers no
macros, poor keymapping, if you are not right on a token and do
^] what should jump to the tag you are placed on, it will throw
bombs.
Elvis : This one seems to be very good except for two reasons:
- first there was no termcap file included with the .ARC file,
therefore some keys produce 'cryptic' strings instead of just
one character.
- Why does someone who is able to programm such a complex thing
like a sophisticated text editor such a thing: Elvis seems
not to be capable to open more than one temporary file. Elvis
has named buffers, therefore allowing you to execute a
buffer, but you will fail trying to put the contents of that
buffer into another file, because elvis has already one
temporary file opened and can not open another one. Shit !
So i would like to know wether there are some other VI-Clones around.
I'm not a masochist using VI. I learned to know VI during my diplom
works that is one year behind now. Of course i had heard all these
horror stories about it, but when i really used it, i found out, that
this was the best editor i ever used. When i came to Digital, i felt
uncomfortable with EDT and EVE. Now i have a VI clone that runs (fairly
good) with VMS. (If someone is interested in that, please reply).
Ralf
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| 1166.7 | VI for VMS - where please? | UPROAR::EVANSG | Gwyn Evans @ IME - Open DECtrade | Tue Sep 10 1991 11:04 | 4 |
> Now i have a VI clone that runs (fairly > good) with VMS. (If someone is interested in that, please reply). There are a number of Unix types here that might be interested... | |||||