VI Editor Wanted For My PC

[Scott Evernden]

In article <patterso.651698838 at usceast> patterso at usceast.UUCP (Mitchell Patterson) writes:
>
>Yesterday or so someone posted the code for elvis, a vi-like editor for
>DOS and various flavors of UNIX.  I don't know how it stacks up against
>the MKS version, but right away there's the obvious advantage that it's
>free.

I've played with elvis for all of about 2 hours, and I'm pretty impressed.
I was able to easily build it on both BSD and MS-DOS.  Although it's somewhat
slower than real vi, it's uncannily similar to vi/ex in a lot of ways.  This
includes stuff like !`a (pipe thru filter) and ^] (tags).  Even :se all
is deceiving.  Even handles humongous files.  Nice work to those responsible!

-scott