My favorite way to edit text is with Vi(m)...

Jazzhands · Post by **Jazzhands** » Mon Oct 24, 2022 11:55 pm

Obviously vim would be pretty beefy for an 8 bit platform, but it actually started life on the Amiga back in the day. Are there any vi clones already ported or could easily be ported to the X16?

desertfish · Post by **desertfish** » Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:09 am

Not vi but there is X16Edit (can be found in the download section) which is a Nano clone.

kelli217 · Post by **kelli217** » Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:17 am

The Amiga may be where you learned about it, but vi dates back to 1976; its longtime rival emacs (known to Amiga users by its derivative microEMACS) is about the same age.

Jazzhands · Post by **Jazzhands** » Tue Oct 25, 2022 12:27 am

Yes, Vim the clone started on the Amiga, but vi per se started on the BSD fork of UNIX. Supposedly the very PDP-11 that BSD was developed on was still marooned in some hallway at Berkeley collecting dust only a few years ago. I asked for it when I visited, but presumably it had been shipped off to a museum or recycled by then ?