Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 13:13:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Richard Ward <garbage DOT collection AT dial DOT pipex DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: New User : Vi
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On Tue, 17 Feb 1998, Richard Ward wrote:

> Does anyone know if Vi has been ported over to the PC, this is a great
> editor and has many useful commands such as linking the Control keys
> (F1, etc) into compiling the code and running programs.

Emacs has a very nice VI emulation mode (so I'm told by people who love 
VI).  The advantage is that you use the editor you are familiar with, but 
can also slowly migrate to Emacs, which is much more powerful.

The disadvantage is that Emacs is a large package.

See ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/emacs.README