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- From: pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: VI vs. ELVIS
- Message-ID: <PCG.93Jan25172605@decb.aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 17:26:05 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.202435.20995@walter.bellcore.com>
- <1993Jan15.202831.21209@walter.bellcore.com> <mrd.727351916@lisa>
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- In-Reply-To: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk's message of 18 Jan 93 10: 11:56 GMT
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- >>> On 18 Jan 93 10:11:56 GMT, mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie) said:
- Dobie> Nntp-Posting-Host: lisa
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- Dobie> In <1993Jan15.202831.21209@walter.bellcore.com>
- Dobie> pietro@nova.bellcore.com (Pietro Manzoni) writes:
-
- pietro> I've been using vi for a long time, and now, I got elvis.
- pietro> It seems very similar to vi, so I wanted to know which are the main
- pietro> differences betwen the two editors.
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- Dobie> The (functional) differences are few and getting fewer, now that elvis
- Dobie> 1.7 has a tagstack. The only major difference left (for me) is that
- Dobie> elvis handles long lines by scrolling sideways whereas vi wraps the line
- Dobie> and shows it all on the screen.
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- Actually *the* major difference is that elvis only allows '/' as
- delimiter in regular expressions, e.g. the ':s' command. This can be a
- pain; I usually specify '|' as my delimiter as in 's|a|b|'.
-
- There is another vi clone, recently posted to one of the sources groups
- (I cannot remember which one). VIM is a near perfect vi clone too, and
- allows the specification of arbitrary delimiters like VI itself.
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- Piercarlo Grandi <pcg@aber.ac.uk> c/o Dept of CS
- University of Wales, Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK
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