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Vim 5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed May 27 21:16:57 1998
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 10:22:53 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 21:16:45 EDT
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
It was pointed out that I did not actually say what Vim, xxd, and
vim-ctags were in an earlier message. To recap: I installed Vim 5.1,
xxd 1.8, and vim-ctags 2.0.3 in the sipb locker.
Vim is a vi clone. It is much more capable than vi but uses the same
basic interface. It includes things like syntax highlighting and
jumping to compiler errors. It also has a complete X interface. More
importantly: it doesn't suck. Version 5.1 comes with all sorts of
improvements, like not crashing as often, ex mode, and syntax
highlighting.
xxd is a spiffy hexdump utility. Nicer than od. Comes with vim.
vim-ctags is a ctags replacement that comes with vim. Interchangeable
with generic ctags. It can also generate etags style tag files.
yak
