jcw@jwren.UUCP (John C. Wren) (07/29/89)
The MKS VI Clone is much faster than the old CSS version. They are both very similair, except the the MKS VI is faster, and edits a somewhat larger file, and supports 8 bits. However, there are several problems with both. The major one with CSS is they went out of business. What really annoyed me was they did that before I got the last release (that was supposedly on order). Anyways, the MKS VI has problems with it's undo and setting markers during an undo. Also, if you set a marker at the beginning of the line, back up several lines and yank into a buffer, you get the complete line you set the marker at. This is not the way the "normal" implentation of VI works. There is also a flaw in the global replace (more likely in the argument processor for colon commands). If you type ":%s/foobar/^v^m/g" (which should replace every occurrence of foobar with a carriage return), you get a musical note for the ^v^m sequence. This might work properly if noeightbits is set, but i prefer to run with that enabled so I can edit files with PC graphics characters in them. Other than that, I consider the MKS VI extremely nice, along with the rest of the utilites. I would recommend them to anyone looking to make their DOS more Unix-y. - John C. Wren jcw@jwren