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From: rosalia@tekig4.UUCP (Mark Galassi)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Is there a micro vi?
Message-ID: <117@tekig4.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 10:11:06 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 10:11:06 1985
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In article <1745@sunybcs.UUCP> wahl@sunybcs.UUCP (Norman Wahl) writes:
>     Does anyone know:
>     -Is it legal to create a micro editor which has the same command
>formats (or, realistically, a good subset thereof) as vi? 
>     -Has it been done, commercially or privately, and for which micro(s)?
>I'm interested in getting one, or writing one, for the Apple ][+ myself.
>Norm Wahl
>University of Buffalo

There is a very good subset of vi which runs on the Macintosh
with the Aztec C compiler, or on IBM PCs (bleah!) with MS-DOS.
It is called 'z', marketed bu Manx Software, and you will find
it hard to find a command which vi has and it doesn't. It is
just missing a couple of the 'ex' underlying commands. It will
yank text, redraw screen, read files, it does everything I use.
I don't know if it exists for the Apple ][, but as you see, it is
available for micros. Good luck,
				Mark Galassi
			    tektronix!tekig4!rosalia