28 Oct
1998
28 Oct
'98
2:49 a.m.
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... ;-)
"Merch"
28 Oct
28 Oct
4:38 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
At 04:25 PM 10/28/98 -0000, you wrote:
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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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... ;-)
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