From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
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Subject: Re: New User : Vi
Date: 18 Feb 1998 00:26:20 GMT
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garbage DOT collection AT dial DOT pipex DOT com (Richard Ward) writes:
> I have just started programming again after a 18 month
> break and I am
> having problems due tom the fact that I was learnt on a
> Unix machine
> running Vi.
> 
> 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.
> 
> If it not are there any other similar programs.

If you are stuck on vi, there is a free vi clone called "elvis", including the
source code,  at http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/lsoft/G/5/ELVIS.html

If you are open to alternatives, there are at least two great environments for
editing source code:

1) RHIDE is free and available by looking around www.delorie.com/djgpp/
   It is an IDE that looks and acts similarily to the Borland Turbo C IDE.  

2) GNU emacs is free and available the same way.
  It is almost anything you want and is very keyboard-shortcut oriented.

--Ed (Myknees)