vile is a portable vi clone with extra features and other improvements. It's a text editor that attempts to combine the best aspects of the popular Emacs and vi...
vile retains the "fingerfeel", if you will, of vi, while adding the multiple buffer and multiple window features of emacs and other editors. it is definitely not a vi clone, in that some substantial stuff is missing, and the screen doesn't look quite the same. the things that you tend to type over and over probably work. things done less frequently, like configuring a startup file, are somewhat (or very, depending on how ambitious you are) different. but what matters most is that one's "muscle memory" does the right thing to the text in front of you, and that is what vile tries to do for vi users.
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The vi editor is one of the most common text editors on Unix. It was developed starting around 1976 by Bill Joy at UCB, who was tired of the ed editor. But since he used...
