OMG! edlin still lives in XP!?

[The PIT]

Originally posted by Wombat
I can outperform whatever you're coding in with Vi. Guaranteed. Having regular expression matching and all that at your fingertips is unparalleled. Go get gvim and learn to use it correctly.

I used to use Vi years ago. It's was crap then and is still crap today. Time to get in the modern world.

[SteveC]

I've got edlin here on my XP Pro. Never found out what the point was tho cos copy con <filename> did the same trick

[DGhost]

Running a clean install of XP Pro here... like I said, I am not suprised my copy doesn't have it

[Umfriend]

Steve, that's bollocks. Did you ever edit an exisiting file with copy con?

[VJ]

I have it too...
Perhaps they added it in SP2?


Vi does offer some functionality no other editor has.


Jörg

[DGhost]

Originally posted by VJ
I have it too...
Perhaps they added it in SP2?


Vi does offer some functionality no other editor has.


Jörg

nope, it's been in XP since day 1. was in 2000 and NT before that :P

[Marshmallowman]

If you know what your doing with vi it is very powerfull, so what do use to edit files in a linux console when the gui is not running?
Hell, I still even use vi when the gui is running, but I must admit if you don't know enough commands it will seem less than functional.

Why remove edlin, less than a k or two of code, and with functionality that can still pull you out of a deep pit on occasion.
(very,very occasionally...but still)

[DGhost]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
If you know what your doing with vi it is very powerfull, so what do use to edit files in a linux console when the gui is not running?
Hell, I still even use vi when the gui is running, but I must admit if you don't know enough commands it will seem less than functional.

Why remove edlin, less than a k or two of code, and with functionality that can still pull you out of a deep pit on occasion.
(very,very occasionally...but still)

in the case of the version of XP I am running it is a matter of having to rewrite edlin so that it could run. yes, it may be only a few K but it would effectively require rewriting it to be a full Win32 (or higher) app in order to make it work. not worth it.

[cjolley]

Originally posted by DGhost
in the case of the version of XP I am running it is a matter of having to rewrite edlin so that it could run. yes, it may be only a few K but it would effectively require rewriting it to be a full Win32 app in order to make it work. not worth it.

But then you could edit unicode files
Chuck

[DGhost]

true, true

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Marshmallowman
If you know what your doing with vi it is very powerfull, so what do use to edit files in a linux console when the gui is not running?
Hell, I still even use vi when the gui is running, but I must admit if you don't know enough commands it will seem less than functional.

That's one of the reasons to use gvim. http://www.vim.org/