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Elvis is a powerful vi/ex clone, i.e. it resembles the Unix text editor "vi" very much but adds quite a few commands and features. Elvis is written by Steve Kirkendall and is distributed under the Clarified Artistic License which is used by Perl. Elvis is the version of vi that comes with Slackware and KateOS.
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Elvis was the pioneering vi clone, widely admired in the 1990's for its conciseness, and many features.[1] [2] For that combination it is still unmatched among the vi clones. It was the first to provide color syntax highlighting (and to generalize syntax highlighting to multiple filetypes),
first to provide highlighted selections via keyboard. Elvis's built-in nroff (early) and (later) html displays gave it unusual WYSIWYG features.
Elvis recognizes binary files, as well - and provides a split screen for editing them.
jelvis, a Japanese variant is available, based on work by Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino up until 1998.[3] His more recent work in this area has been distributed as patches against nvi. A Korean variant helvis is also available, originally by Park Chong-Dae.[4][5] These variants were modifications of elvis 1.8 (July 10, 1994).[6] The nvi editor is based on an older version of elvis 1.5 (April 2, 1992).[7]
References
- ^ http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.uib.no/pub/vi/comp.editors.EDS
- ^ http://www.desy.de/~kuenne/editors.txt
- ^ Jun-ichiro Hagino, KAME Project; and Yoshitaka Tokugawa, WIDE Project (June 6-11, 1999), "Multilingual vi Clones: Past, Now and the Future", 1999 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, <http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix99/summaries/>
- ^ FreshPorts description of helvis.
- ^ README file for helvis.
- ^ A clone of vi/ex, the standard UNIX editor, with Japanese patch.
- ^ Thomas E. Dickey (January 23, 2007). "how to draw a line in vi at 80 columns". comp.unix.programmer. (Web link).
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