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    Chris Maunder
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    I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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      I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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      megaadam
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      If you want roots try to find an emulator for TECO. Anyone who is old enough to know it has got a smile on his face now. :):):):confused::):):) _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life

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        I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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        Christopher Duncan
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        Chris Maunder wrote: what the best vi emulator for Windows is. Good lord, man, get hold of yourself. "Mommy, what's a modal editor?" "It's a grim relic from the dark times, dear. Before the GUI. Before the Empire..." Friends don't let friends use vi. :) Christopher Duncan Today's Corporate Battle Tactic Unite the Tribes: Ending Turf Wars for Career and Business Success The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World

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        • C Chris Maunder

          I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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          Xiangyang Liu
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          Chris Maunder wrote: I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. Ok, it is not easy to migrate the whole CP site to Linux using notepad alone. ;P[

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          • C Chris Maunder

            I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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            Navin
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            Even when I'm on Unix/Linux, I don't use VI. There are so many alternatives... emacs, of course, and then there's something called nedit that emulates Windows editors on Linux. So that begs the question.. Why, Chris, why?? :-D An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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            • C Chris Maunder

              I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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              brianwelsch
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              Chris Maunder wrote: the best vi emulator :~ The lesser evil? BW The Biggest Loser


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              • C Chris Maunder

                I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                Gary Ash
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                Vim, www.vim.org. The best vi everywhere (I don't know where you can't run vim) Most linux systems have vim as their vi

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                • C Chris Maunder

                  I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                  NetDave
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                  You might have a look at Services For Unix. QRZ? de WAØTTN

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                  • M megaadam

                    If you want roots try to find an emulator for TECO. Anyone who is old enough to know it has got a smile on his face now. :):):):confused::):):) _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life

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                    Gary Thom
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                    Ever tried typing your name into it's command buffer? :-D:eek: Gary "A fellow with the inventiveness of Albert Einstein but with the attention span of Daffy Duck." Tom Shales talking about Robin Williams

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                      You might have a look at Services For Unix. QRZ? de WAØTTN

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                      Nemanja Trifunovic
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                      Exactly what I was going to suggest.


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                      • N Navin

                        Even when I'm on Unix/Linux, I don't use VI. There are so many alternatives... emacs, of course, and then there's something called nedit that emulates Windows editors on Linux. So that begs the question.. Why, Chris, why?? :-D An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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                        l a u r e n
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                        for that basic grungy command line editing i use joe on linux brings back memories of wordstar *sigh*


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                          You might have a look at Services For Unix. QRZ? de WAØTTN

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                          l a u r e n
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                          what exactly is that? u can run unix stuff on a windows platform? like a vmware type thing?


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                            for that basic grungy command line editing i use joe on linux brings back memories of wordstar *sigh*


                            "there is no spoon"
                            biz stuff about me

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                            Navin
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                            Wordstar! First word processor I ever learned. Wow, talk about nostalgia. An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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                              I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                              Richard Stringer
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                              Chris Maunder wrote: I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. Luddite !!! Get a horse and carriage also. Start cooking over an open fire. Do all your coding in ASM or machine language via octal toggle input. Ah the good old days. Cassette tape - paper tape - punch cards - using Termcap files. Oh yea that was the time when Men were Men and so were the women. Richard ( THFIC) "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer --Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)

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                                for that basic grungy command line editing i use joe on linux brings back memories of wordstar *sigh*


                                "there is no spoon"
                                biz stuff about me

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                                Brad Bruce
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                                wordstar AAARRRGGGGHHHH

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                                • C Chris Maunder

                                  I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                  You**'re one microscopic cog** in his catastrophic plan...

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                                    If you want roots try to find an emulator for TECO. Anyone who is old enough to know it has got a smile on his face now. :):):):confused::):):) _____________________________________ Action without thought is not action Action without emotion is not life

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                                    Steve Mayfield
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                                    TECO rocked!!! I even ported it to a system based on the Signetics 2650 processor back in the mid 70s - code came in at around 20K which left about 10K for data buffers. I still use the MS-DOS implementation of the EDT editor for much of my code inputting... I just located links for DOS/Windows/Linux versions of Teco Find them here[^] Steve

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                                      I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                      Maximilien
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                                      for REAL pain, I suggest emacs ...


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                                        I could Google, but I wanted a valuable opinion, not merely a search engine's opinion, on what the best vi emulator for Windows is. I feel the need to go back to my roots. No more intellisense, or indeed mouse support for me. :-D cheers, Chris Maunder

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                                        Jim Crafton
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                                        Oh for God's sake stop being a bunch of pansies and use ed[^] and if that's too hard there's always the trusty DOS edline[^] ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned

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                                          what exactly is that? u can run unix stuff on a windows platform? like a vmware type thing?


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                                          Stuart Dootson
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                                          No, it's another sub-system layered on top of the Windows kernel - so if I list my processes, I've got 'cron', 'inetd' etc running, as part of the SFU sub-system. If I start up a ksh window, I can access my Windows file-system as part of the SFU file-system - the root directory of my C drive is /dev/fs/C/. You get pretty much all of the usual Unix utilities and, best of all, it's free! Stuart Dootson 'Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p'

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