On Aug 31, 2006, at 3:19 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to use a plain text editor.
I don't want any surprises.
I don't want it to think it understands language syntax.
I don't want it to colorize things.
I don't want it to do anything at all for me, unless I explicitly
say it is okay for it to do so.
In short, I want vi. Except Linux distributions now alias vi
to vim and all its wondrous wizardry. ``set compatible'' is
insufficient. I still get automated commenting when the silly
thing has decided that I must be editing a C file. Leave me
alone, please. I want it all turned off. I have been unable
to find a simple way to do that. Or even any way to do that,
because I have not found any way at all to turn off the
``you must want this line prefixed with a double slash''
feature. Help! Suggestions, please? Thank you! - Bruce
you might try nvi?
http://www.bostic.com/vi/
Mike
