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- "elvis-2.0" a nice vi replacement is available as "elvis-2.0.N.bs.tar.gz".
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- 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.
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- There are a lot of new features in elvis-2.0. The major ones are:
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- - 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...
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- 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.
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- elvis is maintained by Steve Kirkendall <kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu>.
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- ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/README.html
- This is the "home" site of elvis, where you can find the latest release.
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- Other vi related resources are:
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- -vkyr (Valentino Kyriakides)
- 1kyriaki@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
-