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The Elvis Text Editor - a vi clone for Unix and other operating systems

07/07/2003

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Elvis related links in the web

ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/README.html is the "home" site of elvis. This is where you can find the latest official release.
ftp://ftp.cs.pdx.edu/pub/elvis/unreleased/README.html contains prerelease versions of elvis. Typically, new versions are uploaded once a month or so; watch for announcements on the comp.editors newsgroup.
http://greens.ml.org/about/elvis/online-help/elvis.html is one location on the web where elvis' manual is available online. Be sure to check the version number!
http://www.phys.columbia.edu/~flame/vi.htm is a Web page for elvis, maintained by JaeSub Hong. It has some screen shots, macros, and syntax-coloring definitions. It also has the online manual.
http://www.karpfenteich.onlinehome.de/peter/ElvisMeetsTeX.html "VI - Folding and LaTeX Browse Mode" discusses LaTeX editing using Elvis.
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/elvis/ contains an Elvis building and installation guide for Solaris.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~darren/ctags/ is the home page for Darren Hiebert's exuberant ctags program.
http://www.tamacom.com/global is the home page for Shigio Yamaguchi's global function reference utility.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ is the home page for Adam Costello's par program, which is a much more sophisticated text formatter than the fmt program distributed with elvis.
ftp://alf.uib.no/pub/vi is an archive site containing many macro packages and other information about vi.
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/nansi/ This is a home page for the NANSI.SYS and NNANSI.SYS drivers, which accelerate the screen updates under MS-DOS.

http://www.thomer.com/thomer/vi/vi.html "The VI lover's home page" contains links to a wide variety of vi documentation, and practically all vi clones. A very good resource!
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vi/features.html is a comparison between different VI implementations, plus a few other editors.
http://www.bsyse.wsu.edu/~rnelson/editors/editors.htm is a compendium of text editors. It describes all kinds of text editors, not just vi clones.
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/posix/p1003.2a/d8/5.10
ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/doc/posix/p1003.2a/d8/5.35 are old drafts of the POSIX standards for ex and vi, respectively. These URLs might not be valid very long.
http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/doc/usd/12.vi/paper.html This is the official BSD documentation for vi.
http://unlser1.unl.csi.cuny.edu/faqs/vi-faq/ is a HTML version of the official VI FAQ.
http://herbert.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/html/vi provides a short reference and basic VI concepts in German language.
http://www.vi-editor.org, the name sais it all, lots of information on vi and its clones.

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