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"elvis-2.0" a nice vi replacement is available as "elvis-2.0.N.bs.tar.gz". The archive "elvis-2.0.N.bs.tar.gz" contains the source distribution and two *black binaries* (elvis and xelvis). The 'xelvis' binary can also be used under X11 (usage: "xelvis -G x11"), the smaller 'elvis' binary is the normal one for usage in a NS terminal. There are a lot of new features in elvis-2.0. The major ones are: - Multiple edit buffers - Multiple user interfaces (termcap, x11, open, quit) - Multiple windows (under the termcap and X11 user interface) - A variety of display modes (normal, syntax, hex, html, and man) - Hardcopy from within elvis (can be used to print hex dumps, pretty-printed C code, or formatted HTML documents or man pages) - A C-like expression evaluator - Elvis is now extremely customizable - Online help in html format (yes, elvis now can read html) - and much much more... The advantages of elvis over the old vi which comes with NEXTSTEP are that it offers many more features over the old NS vi and it is also available for many other operating systems. elvis is maintained by Steve Kirkendall <kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu>. ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/README.html This is the "home" site of elvis, where you can find the latest release. Other vi related resources are: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~tmgil/vi.html "The VI lover's home page." This contains links to a wide variety of vi documentation, and practically all vi clones. A very good resource! http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/features.html Feature comparison between different VI implementations, plus a few other editors. Mostly, it just lists which options are supported by which clones. The maintainer is fond of VIM, so there is a bias towards that. http://www.cahe.wsu.edu/~bsyse/faculty/rnelson/editors/editors.htm A compendium of text editors. It describes all kinds of text editors, not just vi clones. It lists the features and supported platforms for each editor. -vkyr (Valentino Kyriakides) 1kyriaki@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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