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Date:      27 Jan 2000 01:56:01 +0100
From:      naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: programmer's editor choice
Message-ID:  <86o531$1qmb$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de>
References:  <200001262222.QAA95197@freeside.fc.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001262305110.38868-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> wrote:

> I know vi is universal, but for your own use, have you tried VIM?  I
> would expect you have, but i thought i would ask.  Vastly imporved
> interface,

Since vim stays mostly compatible with old vi, it can't have a
vastly improved interface. At most, it can have an extended interface.

> with multiple buffers and other emacs-like features.

You are aware that *BSD ships with nvi as /usr/bin/vi, which is
also quite an advance over old vi, and which also happens to support
multiple buffers--aren't you?

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                  naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de



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