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From: rht@smsdpg.uu.net (Randy Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is there VI for the Mac??
Message-ID: <372@smsdpg.uu.net>
Date: 19 Aug 89 16:00:23 GMT
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Organization: SMS Data Products Group, Reston VA
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>I'm about to start on a Mac project and I'm dreading learning 
> some Mouse based Text Editor.
>>
>>Boy are you about to get flamed...!

Some of us have gotten used to vi...Some of us have gotten used
to uEmacs...

I for one continue to use vi on almost every platform that I have
available. It is typically quite compact and quite fast and
easily obtainable on most platforms, even on the mac. After all,
there is something to be said about a common interface ;^).

There _is_ a vi clone available for the mac that is called 
STEVIE. It is not a complete implementation but it does
handle regular expressions quite well (thanks to henry spencer's
regexp lib). STEVIE (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) was originally 
written on an Atari (gasp;^) ST but was ported to the Mac some 
months ago.

You should be able to find it in the Info-mac archives at sumex or
on the listserver at rice.
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Randy Thompson                                   uunet!smsdpg!rht
SMS Data Products Group, Inc.                         -  or  -   
703/648-9400                                      rht@smsdpg.UUCP
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