Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
vi has several clones, such as calvin, Elvis, nvi, viper, and Vim, but vile isn't another vi clone, according to its maintainer, Thomas Dickey. It has the most common vi commands, but doesn't look quite like vi. vile is an editor that works and feels like vi but, like Emacs, incorporates features for editing multiple files in multiple windows."
Posted Jan 31, 2006 19:41 UTC (Tue)
by astrophoenix (guest, #13528)
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Posted Feb 1, 2006 15:21 UTC (Wed)
by Baylink (guest, #755)
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Posted Feb 1, 2006 17:24 UTC (Wed)
by NAR (subscriber, #1313)
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Maybe the gq command?
Posted Feb 2, 2006 21:48 UTC (Thu)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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Posted Feb 1, 2006 17:06 UTC (Wed)
by mtrudelm (guest, #4922)
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From: patl@athena.mit.edu (Patrick J. LoPresti)
When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
Ed, man! !man ed
ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)
NAME
SYNOPSIS
Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem$ ed
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"Ed is the standard text editor."
Posted Jan 31, 2006 19:41 UTC (Tue)
by cantsin (guest, #4420)
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Posted Jan 31, 2006 22:22 UTC (Tue)
by k8to (guest, #15413)
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In short, use vim.
Posted Jan 31, 2006 23:02 UTC (Tue)
by viro (subscriber, #7872)
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Posted Feb 1, 2006 10:55 UTC (Wed)
by philips (guest, #937)
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I used vi once under Slowaris - and gosh it was pain. But still (thanks to my experiece in vim) I was able to do something.
P.S. I have tried nvi and elvis - but both fall short on development features. Proper support for ctags, good visual mode & macro to change between corresponding .c/.h - are the three my main requirements. (One of the reasons I stopped trying emacs, was realizition how inferior etags compared to exhuberant ctags is.) Also, syntax highlighting can make boring coding night little bit more pleasant. (And unlike default emacs coloring scheme, vim's default is usable and is my default. All those emacs' funny colors on white background really irritate my eyes. Background must be black. 'unsigned long int' and asm() must be green. Period.)
I've been a (g)vim user for so long, I forgot that standard vi doesn't Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
support multiple files. :vs and :sp are my friends, not to
mention :ls, :b<num>, :e#, :bn, :bN, and of course :mksession :)
I also have a handy vim function mapped to an autocmd so the cwd of vim is
always the same as the file I'm currently editing. very handy.
I use vim on both Linux and Windows. The only thing I miss on Windows id the ability to pipe a region through, very specifically, par(1l) to rewrap it. I've sort of gathered that gvim has that built in, but I can never quite find it. Anyone got a pointer?Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
par(1l) to rewrap it. I've sort of gathered that gvim has that built in, but I can never quite find it. Anyone got a pointer?
Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
I've used par on windows via cygwin, but as the other poster mentions, the gq command is no slouch.Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
Of course "Ed is the Editor"Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
Subject: The True Path (long)
Date: 11 Jul 91 03:17:31 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.religion.emacs,alt.slack
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
ed - text editor
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
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alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
It scores points over Vim, one of the most
popular clones of vi, because it's slimmer and yet manages to pack in
all the essentials
Binary sizes of vi clones on Debian unstable/x86: vile 594K, vim-tiny 694K,
elvis 552 K.
Vile was a neat hack in its day, but it isn't fully vi compatable, and it's significantly vim incompatable, and it lacks a lot of the niceties of vim.Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
nvi is vi-compatible, has multiple windows just fine and hasReview: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
undo/redo that doesn't make one vomit...
What's the problem with undo/redo in other vi-clones? e.g. vim?Review: vile editor is anything but (Linux.com)
I use vim last 6 years - and most of the features fit me okay.