Re: VI reasons (was Re: Base Set: Suggested additions & removals.)
On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > ae already does this, and provides a reasonably vi ish interface, just to
> > satisfy those whose fingers are only programmed for vi.
>
> Personally, I find ae's vi-compatibility even worse then normal ae: it
> tricks me into thinking it's vi, but I can never resist using some
> vi-magic which confuses ae and gives me horrible results.
As an elvis fan, I share those feelings.
> On my own installation disks (for local network use only) I'm putting
> vim, with almost all options turned off. This gives me a small vi
> which works even better then the original vi :)
Cool. How big is that? Could it be put into a package (just like
elvis-tiny)? We'd have yet another vi clone.
Remco
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