Most of the clones support most or all of the features described above. Table 8.9 summarizes what each editor supports. Of course, the table does not tell the full story; the details are provided in each one's individual chapter.
Feature | nvi | elvis | vim | vile |
---|---|---|---|---|
Multiwindow editing | X | X | X | X |
GUI | X | X | X | |
Extended regular expressions | X | X | X | X |
Enhanced tags | X | X | X | |
Tag stacks | X | X | X | X |
Arbitrary length lines | X | X | X | X |
8-bit data | X | X | X | X |
Infinite undo | X | X | X | X |
Incremental searching | X | X | X | |
Left-right scrolling | X | X | X | X |
Mode indicators | X | X | X | X |
Visual mode | X | X | X | |
Edit-Compile Speedup | X | X | X | |
Syntax Highlighting | X | X | X | |
Multiple OS support | X | X | X |