xvi (pronounced ecks-vee-eye) is a portable multi-window version of the UNIX editor ‘vi’, derived from “STEVIE” in the 1980s. It has some useful enhancements, although not all of vi’s features have been implemented, and some things work differently from vi.
The program was originally developed for the Atari ST, but has been ported to AIX, BSD, HP-UX, MS-DOS, OS/2, QNX, Solaris, SunOS, Sunview, System V, Windows NT and Xenix/386 as well. In spite of its name, there is, as yet, no X-Windows-specific version of it.
It uses text windows separated by horizontal status lines on character mode displays and the windows may represent different files being edited, or different views on to the same file.
xvi is the full-feature vi clone with the smallest program size (under 100 Kbytes, compiling with clang -Os) and memory use.
This is free and open source software.
Website: martinwguy.github.io/xvi
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Developer: Chris and John Downey
License: BSD-like license
xvi is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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