hgp@houem.UUCP (#H.PAGE) (12/10/84)
<ZZZZzzzzzz...> Following are the responses to my query concerning the availability of a "vi like" editor for my AT&T (uh, I mean ibm) PC. One thousand thank you's. Howard G. Page ..!ihnp4!houem!hgp (201)949-0366 "You can't fight here, this is the war room!" ***** ******* ***** >From gargoyle!sphinx!shor Thu Dec 6 01:50:13 1984 remote from ihnp4 Manx Software (the people behind Aztec C) have come up with an editor they call Z that's supposed to be a pretty close match to vi. -- Melinda Shore ***** ******* ***** >From houxm!ahuta!dmt Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 As a followup to Dave Bloom's recommendation of Emerging Technology's EDIX: I use EDIX on the PC and vi on UNIX. EDIX is only sightly vi-ish. It is modeless, and uses function keys and Alt-? keys as commands (more like emacs than vi, though the choice of keys is more intuitive than emacs). In moving between editors, I hit a lot of wrong keys in the first five minutes. However, it's the best I've found so far. As to its developer's experience, Marc Rochkind worked at Bell Labs for over ten years. He spent a lot of time developing PWB tools; for instance, I believe he's the inventor of SCCS (Source Code Control System). (Don't confuse him with Mark Rochkind, also ex-BTL after >>10 years. Marc is a REAL developer, Mark a researcher. I know them both, and can vouch for the characterization.) Dave Tutelman - ATTIS Holmdel ***** ******* ***** >From xxajtxx Thu Dec 6 09:28 EST 1984 remote from houxm XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXAAAAAAAAAAJJJJJJJJJTTTTTTTTTTXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX try Z from Manx Software Systems, 146 Maple Ave., Red Bank, New Jersey 07701, Phone 201-530-7997 It costs $125, and people who have used it say it is extremely vi-like, with most of the extended features of vi. Its cost is quite moderate, compared to the cost of word-processing programs for the PC. ***** ******* ***** >From: lasspvax!vax135!cornell!kevin (Kevin Saunders) [] Try Manx' Z, which is a vi-like editor w/o the ed/ex capabilities. Microsoft is said to use this editor. Personally, I want regular expressions. . . . "Do you know, Mandrake, what they've done to America's drinking water?" Kevin Eric Saunders ***** ******* ***** Th-th-th-a-a-t's all Folks.....