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Originally Posted by xtreampb
this didn't help me at all. What i got from the wiki is that VI is a fancy text editor??? do you have any more links?
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You asked what vi mode was.
I had assumed that you might be confused by 'vi', since it's also a Labview term.
My only goal was to help you understand that 'vi mode' has nothing to do with Labview 'virtual instruments'.
Why would someone feel strongly enough about a 'fancy text editor' that they would mention it as a feature (when there are so many other features to mention)?
I can only guess it's because, historically, GUI IDE software development tools have come with a bare minimum editor that simply didn't meet the needs of programmers.
If a coder has to go outside the GUI to edit his/her code, then the IDE is doomed.
I've been using Vi for 25 years, so the inclusion of a Vi mode made Workbench the first IDE I could use for a project life cycle -- design to debug to maintenance.
As for more links, try this one.
http://www.vim.org/download.php
Download VIM for windows and try it.