vi editor enhancement request

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <456 at tron.UUCP>, wali at tron (Saleem Wali) writes:
|  Now that I have your attention.............
|  (vi editor) Is there anyone who knows of a utility which allows "vi" to
|  display various information, e.g., the filename, time, and
|  whether I am in the insert mode or in the command mode, at the top of 
|  the screen.

yeah, have your sysadm do "mv /usr/local/emacs /usr/ucb/vi" :-)

Otherwise, no luck.  You can press ^G a lot, but that doesn't really
help.  To find out if you are in insert mode, hit ESC, and if it
doesn't beep, you *were* in insert mode.

What can I say, it's "vi".  (or is that "vee-eye"?? :-)

Just another satisfied GNU-EMACS (former vi) user,
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