From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 6CE021EF6BC; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:49:00 -0400 (EDT) X-Greylist: delayed 307 seconds by postgrey-1.34 at befuddled; Fri, 02 Aug 2013 01:48:59 EDT Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [IPv6:2001:44b8:8060:ff02:300:1:2:6]) by befuddled.reisers.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1400F1EF56E for ; Fri, 2 Aug 2013 01:48:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Received: from ppp118-208-248-86.lns20.hba2.internode.on.net (HELO localhost) ([118.208.248.86]) by ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net with SMTP; 02 Aug 2013 15:13:41 +0930 Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 15:43:41 +1000 Subject: Re: vibe, a line-editor with vi-compatible keystrokes To: speakup@linux-speakup.org From: pj@pjb.com.au X-Mailer: mail.pl Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.2 X-BeenThere: speakup@linux-speakup.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: pj@pjb.com.au, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 05:49:00 -0000 Hi. elvis has a non-curses mode. On the blinux list, Tim Chase wrote: > Upon playing with "stevie" it seems that it doesn't actually support > "open mode", I wrote: http://nosuch.com/tjt/stevie says it was last updated in 1988... > but "elvis" (another vi clone) does. > bash$ elvis myfile.txt > :open > or you can specify that you want to use open mode at the command-line: > bash$ elvis -G open myfile.txt > which you can alias with > alias evi='elvis -G open' > to make it easier. Yup, that's nice, that's a serious candidate for vi users :-) It does chew up screen-space, so if you need to copy-and-paste anything into your file you'd better do that at the beginning of the editing-session, and under yasr there is no key-echo so you'd better touch-type well, but, yeah, it looks good. vibe is now too far advanced for me to abandon it, but elvis -G open is my default recommendation for ageing vi-users. On debian, the package is: aptitude install elvis-console ( end cross-post ) Regards, Peter Billam http://www.pjb.com.au pj@pjb.com.au (03) 6278 9410 "Follow the charge, not the particle." -- Richard Feynman from The Theory of Positrons, Physical Review, 1949