From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 26 18:16:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B4815424 for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2000 18:16:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id DAA21383 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 03:16:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA60121 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 01:56:01 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: programmer's editor choice Date: 27 Jan 2000 01:56:01 +0100 Message-ID: <86o531$1qmb$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <200001262222.QAA95197@freeside.fc.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message