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From: rtedw1 AT mdw062 DOT cc DOT monash DOT edu DOT au (Russell Edwards)
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Subject: Re: Editor of choice
Date: 12 Jun 1995 07:29:15 GMT
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feanor AT p236 DOT informatik DOT uni-bremen DOT de (Jani Fikouras) writes:

>  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.

  ... and it has online help... very extensive online help! Vi is very
useful but takes a long time to get used to coming from DOS-style
editors.. the help is very useful :)

  The fun thing about vi is you start out think it's crap, then you get
used to it, and then have to do something where there's no vi, and end
up with all these hjkl's and x's everywhere :)

 Oh yeah the other nice thing about vim is that it tells you when you're
insert mode by having --INSERT-- down the bottom. Very appreciated.

Russell 
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