[ale] A lightweight X editor

[Curt Smith]

On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> Curt Smith <curts at compgen.com> writes:
> \ On Wed, 13 Mar 1996, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> \ 
> \ > > Hay, what about VI style X editors.  Why be an Emacs bigot?  :-)
> \ > 
> \ > Because my fingers need the excersise.  :)
> \ >  
> \ > > Try Xvile/vile.  It's imbetween XEmacs and cat - >file.  Actually it's a big 
> \ > > step up from vi, because vile is a big step up.  
> \ > 
> \ > I'll look for it.  I use vi more than I do emacs, it just that XEmacs 
> \ > is the only real nice X editor I know, er knew, of.
> \ 
> \ Vile is at:
> \ 
> \ id.wing.net, in pub/vile/pgf/vile-4.13.tar.gz.
> id.wing.net and ftp.wing.net both give me "user anonymous access
> denied" and "user ftp access denied".  Any other source?

My private archie directory of ftp site contents finds the following hits:
Or I can uuencode my copy of vile-5.6.tar.gz and email to anyone who wants it..
Vile is a very GOOD vi like editor, multi-buffer-windows etc etc..


dir.freebsd.cdrom.com:-rw-r--r--  1 jkh  ftp-Free   664056 Feb 24  1995 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.freebsd.cdrom.com:-rw-rw-r--  1 jkh    ftp-Free    664056 Feb 24  1995 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.freebsd.cdrom.com:-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   729451 Dec 21 14:12 vile-5.6.tar.gz
dir.ftp.funet.fi:-rw-rw-r--  1 count     bidaily     664056 Feb 24  1995 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.ftp.funet.fi:-rw-rw-r--  1 count     daily       664056 Feb 24  1995 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.ftp.funet.fi:-rw-r--r--  1 root      daily       729451 Dec 21 09:12 vile-5.6.tar.gz
dir.ftp.germany.eu.net:-rw-r--r--  1 linuxadm   664056 Feb 24 02:36 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.ftp.infomagic.com:-r--r--r--   1 ftp-adm  ftp        664056 Feb 24 05:36 vile-5.2.tar.gz
dir.sunsite.unc.edu:-rw-r--r--   1 ewt      ftp-admi  664056 Feb 23  1995 vile-5.2.tar.gz                   

Curt Smith
curts at compgen.com