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From: brent@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Brent Nordquist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Problem with AVI
Message-ID: <1272@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>
Date: 8 Aug 88 17:23:08 GMT
References: <993@tellab5.UUCP> <3316@tekigm2.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: brent@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Brent Nordquist)
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Questar Data Systems, Minneapolis, MN
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In article <3316@tekigm2.TEK.COM> phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) writes:
|In article <993@tellab5.UUCP> grj@tellab5.UUCP (Gary Jenkins) writes:
|>Has anyone gotten the recently posted "avi" to work?
|
|As far as actual operation, that's another story. There are a number of
|deficiencies which I can't live with, so I've gone back to Manx 'Z'. The
|main gripes I have with it are:
|
|	[ gripes ]

I like 'avi'--sure can't beat the price!  :-)  Finally I can enter a
program in a non-frustrating manner.  (Read: the manner to which he
is accustomed.)

BUT... there are several keys that weren't implemented that really
wouldn't take too much work, and that I use all the time:

	R	to overstrike until  -- this is SO common.  (I
		notice that it puts the word 'Replace' on the window
		from which 'avi' was run when you use 'R'.)
	H,M,L	to jump to the top, middle, and bottom of the screen;
		this one is driving me nuts.
	:n/e	to load in another file; avi takes so long to load--it
		would be nice to be able to switch files without
		leaving.

Also, there is no equivalent of an .edrc file; I use autoindent and
no-ignore-case and it gets tedious to type :set all the time.

I liked the cute little 'Beep' that appears on the bottom line.  :-)

However (gripe-mode-off :-) it's better than what I was using before,
and gets me closer to 'vi' than I was.  Perhaps in its next release...
Thanks a lot to the author for making life easier for us vi-addicts!
-- 
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