vi (pronounced as two letters, /ˌviːˈaɪ/ ) is a screen-oriented text editor originally created for the Unix operating system. The portable subset of the...
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Vim (/vɪm/ ; vi improved) is a free and open-source, screen-based text editor program. It is an improved clone of Bill Joy's vi. Vim's author, Bram Moolenaar...
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of notable text editors. The following editors can either be used with a graphical user interface or a text user interface. Sources: Editors that are specifically...
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thereby becoming the vi text editor. In recent times, ex is implemented as a personality of the vi program; most variants of vi still have an "ex mode"...
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Stevie (ST Editor for VI Enthusiasts) is a discontinued clone of Bill Joy's vi text editor. Stevie was written by Tim Thompson for the Atari ST in 1987...
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Elvis is an enhanced clone of the vi text editor, first released in January 1990. It introduced several new features, including syntax highlighting and...
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The KDE Advanced Text Editor, or Kate, is a source code editor developed by the KDE free software community. It has been a part of KDE Software Compilation...
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basic comparisons for notable text editors. More feature details for text editors are available from the Category of text editor features and from the individual...
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The editor war is the rivalry between users of the Emacs and vi (now usually Vim, or more recently Neovim) text editors. The rivalry has become an enduring...
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Ed (software) (redirect from Standard text editor)
sophisticated full-screen editor vi. The ed text editor was one of the first three key elements of the Unix operating system—assembler, editor, and shell—developed...
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A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. An example of such program is "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors...
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search and replace operations. By comparison, some popular Unix text editors such as vi and Emacs provide a wider range of features than Pico; including...
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Look up Vi, VI, vi, .vi, V.I., v.i., or Appendix:Variations of "vi" in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. vi most commonly refers to: vi (text editor), a screen-oriented...
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vile is a text editor that combines aspects of the Emacs and vi editors. These editors are traditionally located on opposing sides of the editor wars, as...
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Sam is a multi-file text editor based on structural regular expressions. It was originally designed in the early 1980s at Bell Labs by Rob Pike with the...
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Nvi (redirect from Nvi (text editor))
nvi (new vi) is a re-implementation of the classic Berkeley text editor, ex/vi, traditionally distributed with BSD and, later, Unix systems. It was originally...
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instead of the multi-mode command structure of vi. It supports many features common in advanced text editors, such as syntax highlighting, regular expressions...
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graduate student at Berkeley, and he is the original author of the vi text editor. He also wrote the 2000 essay "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us", in which...
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Learning the vi and Vim Editors is a tutorial book for the vi and vim text editors written by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah, and Linda Lamb and published...
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Emacs (redirect from Editor MACroS)
(/ˈiːmæks/ ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual...
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application, as well as helpful keyboard shortcuts. One example is the 'vi' text editor of UNIX (from the 1970s) or newer Linux systems. Status lines have...
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nothing in common with that of Autodesk Maya or the Vi text editor. The latest version of MayaVi, called Mayavi2, is a component of the Enthought suite...
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RISC-V platform. The BSD vi text editor is based on code from the ed line editor in those early Unixes. Therefore, "traditional" vi could not be distributed...
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insert mode of the Vi text editor and its clone Vim. ^U deletes a line. The meaning of "backwards" depends on the direction of the text, and could get complicated...
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multi-functional text editors. TPU is part of OpenVMS. It can be used on a terminal, a console, or on a graphical system like DECwindows. TPU provides text buffer...
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Office Assistant (category Articles containing Japanese-language text)
software—a version of the vi text editor featuring a rough-sketched Clippit. The name is a portmanteau of vi (the name of the Unix text editor) and Igor, Dr. Frankenstein's...
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.vi is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the U.S. Virgin Islands. Registration is available in .vi or one of its second-level TLDs...
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Arrow keys (redirect from Vi keys)
the Unix computer world, a practice spawned by its use in the vi text editor. The editor was written by Bill Joy for use on a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal...
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two new programs by Joy that persist on Unix systems to this day: the vi text editor (a visual version of ex) and the C shell. Some 75 copies of 2BSD were...
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Kakoune (category Text editors)
modal screen-based text editor program created in 2011 by French programmer Maxime Coste. The editor is heavily inspired by the classic vi by Bill Joy, as...
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