Re: Elvis vi clone for the Mac
Re: Elvis vi clone for the Mac
- Subject: Re: Elvis vi clone for the Mac
- From: Bill Campbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:41:18 -0700
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On Thu, Mar 26, 2009, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>First, you might want to consider using vim instead of elvis. Vim is
>more fully-featured (or more bloated, depending on how you feel about
>it), is much more widely supported and available in not only an
>X11-aware version but also as a Cocoa app.
Is there anything that elvis offers that's not supported in vim?
It's been almost 20 years since I used elvis which allowed me to
actually do something productive on a DOS systems along with
early versions of perl for DOS (I had perl scripts that would
write batch files, exec the batch files to free perl's memory,
then the batch files would execute perl to do real work again).
>Second, whenever you think "I wish I had UNIX/Linux tool X on my Mac",
>you should reach for Fink (http://www.finkproject.org/) or MacPorts
>(http://www.macports.org/). In this case, MacPorts has a port of
>Elvis 2.2_0_2 for the Mac, so once you've installed MacPorts, just
I build a fair amount of *nix software on OS X under the OpenPKG
portable package management system.
Since we're already a bit off-topic here, what is the status of
zfs on Mac?
Bill
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