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Date:      Mon, 15 Jun 1998 01:08:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      James <dominus@lies.dyn.ml.org>
To:        Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au>
Cc:        Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A first encounter with 'vi'
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615010255.1098B-100000@minos.dyn.ml.org>
In-Reply-To: <19980615144252.14431@welearn.com.au>

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On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 14, 1998 at 02:53:01PM -0700, Tim Gerchmez wrote:
> > 
> > Oh my lord... save me from vi...  ;-)
> > 
> > Today, I was unfortunate enough to encounter it for the first time when
> > trying to change my shell from sh back to csh (don't ask).
> 
> BTW, did anyone ever tell you it's trendy to use bash as your shell?

tcsh for me... :)

> So, what's the bad news? Well, since you asked... you *can* get a version
> of vi that will run under windoze :-)

http://www.vim.org

actually it is vim (Vi IMproved) but it works just as well.  They have it
for Win32, 16-bit DOS, and P-Mode DOS

James


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