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vi editor for Windows

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imFrank

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Mar 30, 2005
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Can anyone recommend a "vi" editor that works in Windows XP? I would rather use a recommended vi editor that just going out and finding one on-line. I am very familar with vi, I'm looking for one someone can use on their PC for training.
 
Though I am new to Linux and things like VI are still somewhat out of my grasp, I hear that VIM is good. Here is their website for further review.
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Got it. Installed it. Will test... Thanks Single Guru.
 
I've heard good things about this one, although I haven't used it myself:

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vim has other features too like differences (gvim -d) which I find really useful. Far better than windiff.

The only annoying thing is if one CR is missing from any of the CRLF sequences, you'll have all the good lines ending with ^M. Seems to happen a lot with PVCS.
 
MKS has a set of Unix/Linux commands for Windows that includes vi.


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