jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) (03/02/90)
I use textedit constantly, but miss features (to say the least) of vi.
When I use vi, I miss features of textedit, primarily scroll bars and
just mouse-ability in general.
Has anyone blended these two, yet? I suppose it would be called vitool.
I imagine a front-end for vi that would allow mouse positioning of the
caret (and a left-button click), telling vi the appropriate things to get
it to move its cursor there; knowing whether vi is in insert mode, and
putting it there if I do a Paste, for instance. It would work just like
vi, except that the mouse and selection service would work.
Perhaps a special TERMCAP would make it easier for the tool to understand
what vi is up to.
How about it, people? I just got a Sun on my desk a month ago, and I
thought of this; hasn't *somebody* out there already done it in the
years and years prior to my entry upon the scene?
-Jim Hickstein, Teradyne/Attain, San Jose, CA (408) 434-0822
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{decwrl|sun|ditka}!teraida!jxh%attainpeter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (03/03/90)
For the folks wanting an enhanced vi.
The best freeware 'vi' out right now is called 'elvis'. It's a MINIX thing,
and I don't know if it's ever been put into a real sources group. Myself,
I favor creation of a comp.sources.minix... but that's a horse of a different
color.
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