Xvi

XVI/PM

Multi-platform programmer's editor modelled to a degree on vi that was originally released for the Atari ST in the latter half of the 80s as STEVIE but around 1990 it was forked into a version called xvi and ported to a host of operating systems including AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, MS-DOS, OS/2, QNX, Solaris, SunOS, Sunview, UNIX System V, Windows NT and Xenix/386. While functionally similar to vi it adds a number of more modern features such as multiple buffers and so on.

There was for a time also available a CLI mode port of xvi available for OS/2 but that appears lost to the vagaries of time.

Version

• 2.15 (1995) - XVI/PM Alpha 4 for OS/2 Presentation Manager
• 2.49
• 2.50.3 (2017-06-07)

License

• Open source in the public domain, OS/2 PM source was never released

Links

• xvi homepage
• xvi Github page
• Ned Konz's Old Homepage - Xvi/PM port

Authors

• Chris Downey (Original xvi author)
• John Downey (Original xvi author)
• Martin Guy (Current maintainer)
• Ned Konz (OS/2 PM port)